The Claims Conference members made public their view that others were more deserving of the recovered property than the survivors descendents. From my own experience, during the process of recovering property in Berlin on behalf of my mother, it was only the threat of legal action which convinced the Claims Conference staff to withdraw a counterclaim for the property.

There was and still is no excuse which condones the alleged behaviour of these people, the more so as the ranks of survivors and their descendents thin with the passing of time.