Holocaust survivors filed an $18 billion lawsuit against two of Germany’s largest commercial banks. The complaint against Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank said they hoarded gold taken from concentration camp victims. A U.S. State Department report issued earlier this week charged that the two banks sold resmelted victims’ gold to Turkey in order to supply Germany with the hard currency needed to purchase war supplies.
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