United Restitution Organization (URO)

The file contains five circulars (“Rundschreiben”) by the United Restitution Organization (Frankfurt) ranging between July and September 1970. The circulars include the following issues: no. 1675, no. 1674, no. 1673, no. 1672, and no. 1669. They mainly deal with recent court judgements made by the German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof) on questions of restitution after Nazi persecution, especially regarding juridical regulations for claims following forced labor and regarding the belonging to the German speaking cultural sphere. The topics include: „Zwangsarbeit unter haftähnlichen Bedingungen“, „Begriff des „deutschen Sprach- und Kulturkreises“, „Den Begriff des „deutschen Sprach- und Kulturkreises in Paragraph 150 BEG“, „Paragraph 43 Abs. 3 BEG“, „Paragraph 17 Abs. 1 Nr. 5“.