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| | The Battle For Berlin -- Sunday, Jul. 27, 2003 -- Page 1 -- TIME |
 | | For more than a decade, the Leipziger Platz site and a patchwork of other prime real estate in the heart of Berlin that belonged to Wertheim has been the object of one of the biggest restitution battles in post-reunification Germany. |
 | | Berlin authorities gave a triangle of land in central Berlin next to Potsdamer Platz to the retailer for free, on the understanding that it would build a corporate headquarters on it. |
 | | TLG, a branch of the German restitution agency, is trying to develop Leipziger Platz and has set up a series of dummy corporations all based at its own address, but apparently with no assets or funds to do so. |
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