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Originally Posted by Rochard
So Nazi Germany took away my family's farm and I get to sue the US Government?
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Yes, because they via treaty agreed to pay the survivors out for any land claims. Poland paid them to. Why Poland? I don't know, I think the lost land became property of the state or something.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
How much do you think that farm is worth now? One million US dollars? Two million? Ten? Plus damages. Plus interest. Plus the fact that my family lost half a dozen people. We could easily be talking tens of millions of dollars here.
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I think it's land claims only, and depending on where it was it might be worth next to nothing or a hundreds of millions of dollars if it's now part of Warsaw for instance.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
In fact, you can argue every single person in Polish suffered huge losses during the war. Same with the UK, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Italy, various countries in Africa, and dozen other countries. It's estimated that over one hundred million people were killed during WWII - How can you compensate one hundred million families for this? How many families lost houses? How many families lost businesses?
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You can't, but what I'm getting at is that there are still people trying.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
Frankly, any of this would be nearly impossible to take to court. Do you really think the local courthouse still has the original deed to my family's farm, and that we can prove it was taken away from us?
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Many times people have come force with fake documents and been busted. It's hard to prove that it was both owned by your family and that it wasn't sold after it was owned.