The heir to a Nazi-era arms supplier paid $6.5 million into a German fund for World War II-era slave and forced laborers. Friedrich Christian Flick’s contribution, announced last Friday, was a reversal of his earlier stance that he was not obligated to contribute to the estimated $6.6 billion fund, which was set up by German government and industry in 2001, the Associated Press reported.
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