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- From: jpsb@NeoSoft.com (Jim Shirreffs)
- Subject: Re: Columbus vs Indians (was Re: PC lives)
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:11:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <C03nB8.3zu@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <1992Dec29.211245.12184@m5.harvard.edu> <1hsc58INNhtd@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM> <1992Dec30.155829.16852@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
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- >In Germany, today, there are some Eastern Germans asking to have the
- >property that they owned, or thier parents owned, before the wall
- >went up. These Germans have a claim that they were "on the wrong side
- >of the fence" and were not allowed to return. Do these people have a
- >claim to the property. They were, in a sense, conquired and lost
- >thier land. Should they get it back?
- >
- >What about the person(s) now holding that property? They have worked
- >hard to obtain it. Probably made the needed repairs over the years.
- >Have made a livelyhood(sp?) working the land. Should these people
- >give up their land. What happens to them? Should they be held to blaim
- >for what a few governments did?
-
- I read about this when the "wall" first came down, but it was W. Germans
- claiming E. German land. I wondered how Germany was going to deal with
- this issue. If there every waws a case of "damned if you do and damned
- if you don't" this is it. I suspect that possession is 9/10 of the law
- will prevail. Please keep us informed if you can.
-
- jim shirreffs
-