A lawyer who is suing German companies on behalf of Nazi-era slave workers is planning to post research on his law firm’s Web site detailing how the companies profited from their ties to the Third Reich. “We intend to increase the stakes,” said Michael Hausfeld, who has charged that the firms are blocking efforts to reach a settlement of the Holocaust survivors’ suits.
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