Six more Swiss firms joined an approximately $5 billion German fund to compensate World War II-era slave and forced laborers. The moves by Roche, Ciba Speciality Chemicals, Holderbank, Kuehne & Nagel, Ascom and Swisscom/Debitel brings the total number of Swiss firms participating in the fund to 11.
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