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Added: Feb 8, 2012
The UN's highest court has confirmed that Germany has legal immunity from being sued in foreign courts by victims of Nazi atrocities.
The international court of justice said that Italy's supreme court violated Germany's sovereignty in 2008 by judging that an Italian civilian, Luigi Ferrini, was entitled to reparations for his deportation to Germany in 1944 to work as a slave labourer.
Germany argued that the Italian ruling threw into doubt a restitution system put in place after the Nazis' defeat that has seen Germany pay tens of billions in reparations since the 1950s.