GERMAN BUNDESTAG PRESIDENT THIERSE TALKS TO PRINCIPE AND BROZIK IN BERLIN, 2003 (photo)

Wolfgang Thierse, President of the German Bundestag lower house of parliament, talks to Barbara Principe and associate executive vice-president of the Jewish Claims Conference Karl Brozik (LtoR) during the opening ceremony of a new government building in Berlin December 10, 2003. Thierse invited Principe and several other descendants of the Jewish Wertheim family, whose business empire was seized by the Nazis, to Berlin to open the building on their family's former property. The family is demanding compensation for their losses from the government and from Karstadt, a retailer that bought the company that bought the remains of Wertheim in the 1950s and still uses the Wertheim name. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann REUTERS AKW/JOH