One of the two German banks named in an $18 million class-action lawsuit filed by Holocaust survivors said ongoing research shows there are no grounds for the lawsuit. The comments by a spokesman for Dresdner Bank that the bank did not know the origin of gold it handled during the Nazi era follow similar statements made by Deutsche Bank, the other bank named in the lawsuit.
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