Q. Well, what was your opinion as to what a court could do when the law of inheritance provided that one person should receive the Jewish estate and that the decree for police confiscation provided that the property should be confiscated?
A. In practice it was like this. The law of inheritance remained as it was from the point of view of legal theory; but the property left by a Jew which was forfeited to the Reich when the Jew died, however, no longer existed.
Q. It existed. You don’t mean it vanished in the air? You mean it was—
A. No, that is to say, it had now gone to the police or to the finance office, they had now taken into their hands the property left by the Jew.
Q. Then I take it in practice the courts did not enforce what you have stated would be the valid law of inheritance?
A. I assume that such cases did not come before the courts.
Q. Well, didn’t matters of inheritance in general as to the Germans come before the courts?
A. Yes, yes they did.
Dr. Orth: I think that is all.
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