A.U.S. Jewish group said it wrote to 117 German companies asking them to join the 16 firms that have already agreed to provide compensation to Nazi-era slave laborers. “Compensation is a moral, historical and political obligation for the German government and German industry as a whole,” the American Jewish Committee said.
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