A group of Jewish and non-Jewish former inmates of a Nazi concentration camp have failed in a test case asking compensation for wages withheld while they were slave laborers in German war industries.
The plaintiffs, 105 Jews and 11 non-Jews, were inmates of the Leichenberg concentration camp during the war and were forced to work, under S.S. supervision, for Telefunken and Hagenuk industries.
A party of 25 will carry an appeal to the German High Court. Most of the defendants have decided to give up the fight in view of prohibitive court costs. The test case asked 10,000 deutschemarks compensation for one plaintiff.
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