The United States is joining a call to extend the Aug. 11 application deadline for those seeking payments from a nearly $5 billion German fund for Holocaust-era slave and forced laborers. “The United States would support such a change, which would improve the opportunity for victims to apply for payments,” James Bindenagel, the U.S. State Department’s envoy on Holocaust issues, said in a letter.
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