The opposition candidate in the race for German chancellor said he did not believe the federal government should help compensate Nazi-era slave laborers. “Compensation is an issue for the companies that benefitted” from such labor, Gerhard Schroeder said. Chancellor Helmut Kohl said last month that German reparation coffers were closed, adding that the country had paid more than $56 billion in compensation since the end of the war.
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