New development in large German lawsuit on Jewish property restitution

There have been new developments in one of the biggest cases of restitution of Jewish property seized by Nazis in Germany. The 200-acre estate of the Sabersky family in Teltow, near Berlin, formerly known as "Gut Seehof", was divided into over 1,000 individual properties and sold off during the 1930s under the direction of a local Nazi. The restitution demand by the Sabersky heirs was originally reviewed by the Restitution Authority in Potsdam, which ruled against the returning the properties. A lower court in Potsdam upheld this decision, but after a series of appeals the German High Court reversed the lower court's decision in 2003 and returned the case to Potsdam for more factual findings. Now, it appears that ten of the 17 heirs would accept a compensation payment by the German government for 100 of the 663 properties still in question. However, it remains unclear if the two main Sabersky heirs Peter and Valerie Sonnenthal will accept such a move.