Former Nazi slave laborers protested outside a shareholers meeting of the chemical company that produced the Zyklon B gas during World War II. The survivors, who were joined by human rights workers and leftists at the meeting in Frankfurt, some shouting “Jew murderers,” were demanding compensation from IG Farben, which was dissolved after the war, but still exists as a trust to handle claims.
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