A U.S. judge dismissed class-action lawsuits that had been blocking payments from a $5.2 billion fund that Germany created to compensate Nazi-era slave laborers. The decision by Judge Shirley Wohl Kram prompted German officials to say payments to aging survivors could begin soon.
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