PROPERTY LEFT BY GOERING
Claim By State To Pay Damages
(N.Z Press Association—Cotn/ripht) (Rec. 10 pan.) BERLIN, Feb. 17. .The property of Hermann Goering, valued at about a million marks (about £80,000), is expected to be the subject of a Berlin Denazification Court’s hearing in the northern spring, accord-' ing to the American Associated Press.
Goering committed suicide in his Nuremberg prison cell after an Allied War Crimes-Tribunal had sentenced him to death by hanging. He left art treasures, shares and bank accounts, seized in Berlin after the fall of the Nazi regime. The Berlin Denazification Court, the only such Court still operating In Germany, has now received a 68-page charge in which the State claims the Goering properties for restitution of damages caused by Nazism in Germany. Those affected by possible confiscation of the properties are the former Reich Marshal’s widow, Emma Goering, aged 65. id her 20-year-old daughter. Edda, a w student living with her mother in Munich.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28823, 18 February 1959, Page 16
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