Lawyers for Holocaust victims filed a lawsuit against German clothing maker Hugo Boss for its use of slave laborers during World War II. Allegations against the company, which made uniforms for the Hitler Youth and the German Army during the war, first surfaced in 1997. The suit, filed May 13 in a U.S. District Court in New Jersey, also named several new companies that have not been targeted by previous similar lawsuits.
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