Two German banks asked a U.S. court to dismiss a class-action suit filed by Holocaust survivors claiming that the banks profited from gold looted from concentration camp victims. Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank maintain that the claims brought by the plaintiffs in the $18 million suit were resolved at the end of World War II.
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