Germany
It comes a week after German prosecutors charged a former secretary at Stutthof with 10,000 counts of being an accessory to murder.
“The meeting is part of an ongoing policy review. It is not decisional,” posted White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Twitter.
“United States law governs domestically but does not rule the world,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the decision.
Germany’s foreign minister wanted to make sure that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance remained on equal footing with other organizations.
Assadolah Assad, who served in the Iranian embassy in Vienna, was convicted of transporting explosives for an attack on leaders of the National Council of Resistance of Iran at the group’s annual rally near Paris in 2018.
Judge Ursula Mertens described the murderous acts of Stephan Balliet as “cowardly” and “cruel,” pointing out that he showed no remorse.
The case centers on the Guelph Treasure, purchased by Jewish art dealers who were later forced by the Nazis to sell it to the Prussian State Museum for a third of its value.
The European powers warn that it “risks compromising the opportunity for a return to diplomacy with the incoming U.S. administration.”
Although foreign governments usually cannot be sued in American courts, exceptions for acts of terrorism or acts of property confiscation violating international law have been made.
Despite the U.S. sanctions imposed in October, Germany’s Bundesbank kept open multibillion-euro deposit accounts for Iranian banks to facilitate trade with the Islamic Republic.
Germany is currently the top donor nation to UNRWA, contributing nearly $170 million in 2019. Experts say that UNRWA’s textbooks promote “the delegitimization of Israel and the Jews in what they call ‘Palestine.’ ”
Friedrich Karl Berger was ordered removed from the United States because of his time in 1945 as an armed guard of concentration-camp prisoners in the Neuengamme system in northern Germany.
