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Amid the run-down villas in East Berlin's once genteel Pankow district, the lovely stucco house at Am Iderfenngraben 23 looks decidedly out of place. The wrought-iron gate is freshly painted; the clay roof shingles gleam in the afternoon sun. Rudolf Musch, a construction engineer, has spent most of his savings renovating the 1920s home since his family moved in eleven years ago. But the Musches, who pay $92 a month in rent for their 1,658-sq.-ft. space, may soon find themselves on the street. Hilmar Schneider, the owner of the house, who left the East...
...Musch vs. Schneider confrontation is one of many such struggles over property in East Germany today. They all turn on the question of who owns what. What does a 1930s deed mean in a country where almost everything has been Volkseigentum, or property of the people, for the past 40 years? Who is entitled to a house built on land confiscated by the state? What are the rights of longtime renters? The All-German Institute, a West German authority, estimates that West Germans have claims to more than 1 million homes, factories and parcels of land in the East...
...result of this election will not be tolerated!" announced Nicholas Musch-anoff on quitting the Royal Palace. "The new City Council will be dissolved by His Majesty's Government and we shall take certain obvious and necessary steps...
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