“By then I was already in the trap and couldn’t get out,” a tearful Goldschlag told a friend in 1944. Now a lawyer has served the publisher with legal notice to halt sales, claiming it infringes its client’s so-called “personal rights”. Good nameAll Germans enjoy so-called “personal rights” which entitle them to protection of their good name in public. Its lawyer told German radio, citing a hypothetical case, that a son could sue to preserve his dead mother’s good name. But this case – with personal rights transferred to a third party, and claimed by heirs – “is hardly legally possible”.

Source: The Irish Times February 06, 2019 00:56 UTC