![]() ![]() They did not confiscate the property but certainly they live well off of the profits. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie tackles the question of the obligations of first and second generation descendants of Nazi soldiers. However, it becomes clear that her Grandfather was a Nazi and that, while he paid for the store, it was at a fraction of its worth. The funny thing is that no one in Johannas family talked about how the store came into the family or what her Grandfather did during World War II. Meta Levin, nee Heimann, made it abundantly clear that the Nazis were swine and she would never set foot in Germany again. ![]() However, little of this money reached the Jewish owners. Then stalwart Nazi supporters could buy out the Jewish owners at reduced prices. On a school trip to Israel, during which eight students interviewed eight former students of the Victoria School, all of whom are Jewish, Johanna learns that the Nazis essentially boycotted Jewish stores to force them into bankruptcy. What would you do if you were a seventeen year old German girl who found out that the apparel store your parents own (Riemenschneiders Fine Apparel) was originally called Heimann & Compagnie and was previously owned by two Jewish families? Furthermore, you found out that the Jewish families fled Germany during the Holocaust and they received virtually nothing for their store. ![]()
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