Holocaust victims suing German firms for compensation will present Germany with proposed guidelines for the country’s Holocaust fund next week, according to a lawyer for the victims. Michael Hausfeld told the Reuter news agency that the fund, which is estimated to exceed more than $1 billion, would be more complicated than the settlement reached by Jewish groups and Swiss banks.
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