The chairman of Britain’s Holocaust Education Trust said a new study completed by his group found that about 1 million Jews died as a result of Nazi slave labor. Lord Greville Janner said at the Washington Conference on Holocaust-era Assets that 11 companies used slave labor from Nazi concentration camps, including BMW, Daimler-Benz, I.G. Farben, Ford and Volkswagen.
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