Germany returns property to Jewish family

Germany’s highest administrative court has upheld claims to real estate in Berlin by heirs of a Jewish family who lost their department store fortune under the Nazis.

The ruling is a victory for the Wertheim heirs, and delivers a setback to KarstadtQuelle, which had fought the family’s claim to the site of its former downtown Berlin department store near the city’s glitzy, redeveloped Potsdamer Platz square worth millions of dollars.