Talks aimed at determining how much to compensate Holocaust-era slave laborers began Tuesday in Bonn. Jewish representatives and 16 German companies have been working in recent months to determine the companies’ liability for using Nazi slave labor during World War II, and officials on both sides said they were optimistic key issues can be resolved this week. A large gap remains, however, between the $20 billion attorneys for Holocaust survivors have been seeking, and the $1.7 billion the German companies proposed earlier this year.
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