A failure to reach agreement on a compensation fund for slave laborers could lead to a boycott on German products in the United States, according to Germany’s chief negotiator in talks designed to create such a fund. Otto Lambsdorff made his comments after last week’s round of talks failed to come up with an agreement on the fund because of differences between German companies of Jewish representatives over the size of the fund.
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