Twelve major German companies signed on to a proposed fund to compensate victims from the Holocaust era. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said at a news conference with industry leaders that the fund’s function is to counter lawsuits and “to remove the basis of the campaign being led against German industry and our country.” Holocaust victims have launched a series of lawsuits in recent months against German companies that used slave labor and took over Jewish assets. Details of the fund have yet to be determined.
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