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East German evicted owners can buy back Berlin Wall lots
BONN. Feb 9: East Germans whose property was seized to make way for the communists' Berlin wall and for the death, strip on the German German border can buy it back at bargain prices under » parliamentary bill passed late Thursday, reports AP
But the legislation is being blasted by some who were forced from their land during the Cold War and who argue it is immoral to have to pay’ Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government anything to get it
"We've been punished twice: once when we had to leave our properties and now because we re not getting it back." said Georg. Wagner, a 70-year old whos? lot along the former German-German border was seized by the Communists in 1959.
Joachim Hildebrandt, who wants the return of a lot upon which part of the Berlin Wall was erected. Said he's going to take his case to Germany’s highest court.
The government is trying to make a profit at our expense." Hildebrandt alleged
Kohl's government inherited the Bertin Wall and the death strip along the 1.393 kilometer ( 862 mile) border when the two German nations united in 1990.
Wagner and Hildebrandt lost building lots rather than homes to the Communists But thousapds more were forced by East German sol diers out of their houses at gunpoint. Their homes were razed and the owners were
1 forced to find other places to live.
Over the years, many of the evicted owners have died or given up hope of ever getting their lots back. But not all of them.
Hildebrandt and Wagner are leaders of two separate organisations with a total of 2.500 members who. since unification, have been demanding restitution of their
Sull the bill whloh-was
passed by the lower house of parliament by Kohl's majority - and which could be soon signed into law — doesn't seem like a bad deal
Former owners can buy back their lots at one-quarter of their current value. The govern me at could decide to keep lots if that serves "the public interest." But the original owners would be given 75 per cent of the land's current value as compensation.
Kohl's government would like to sell some of the seized lots, especially prized real estate in Berlin.
Justice Minister Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig said a number of evicted owners have complained to him about the bill. But others are pleased with its terms, he said.
The Berlin Wall went up in 1961. Constructlop of the border fortifications — which included electric fences, guard towers and land mines - began tn the 1950s.