New York City’s comptroller is “skeptical” that the German government and business community will reach an agreement to compensate Nazi-era slave laborers by a Sept. 1 deadline. Alan Hevesi, who heads a group of U.S. financial officials monitoring the resolution of Holocaust-era issues, told the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany on Tuesday that talks aimed at providing the compensation have slowed.
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