QUICK TAKES - Jan. 21, 2009

A Jewish man fighting to regain possession of thousands of rare posters seized from his father by the Nazis appeared to score a victory on Tuesday when a Berlin court indicated it believed his father was the owner in 1938 when they were taken.

But the Berlin administrative court hearing failed to resolve the suit filed by Peter Sachs, 71, of Sarasota, Fla., and both sides vowed to press their cases further.

The judges said they needed to deliberate whether further arguments were necessary before they could issue a verdict on the case involving about a third of the 12,500 rare posters seized from the home of Hans Sachs in 1938 on the orders of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.

After communism fell, the collection was turned over to the German Historical Museum in 1990. Today the museum possesses more than 4,000 of the posters, worth an estimated $5.9 million.