A second German firm said it would set up a fund to compensate slave laborers who worked for the company during World War II. The decision by the electronics firm Siemens to establish the $11.9 million fund comes two months after Volkswagen announced a similar move. Siemens is one of the defendants in a class-action lawsuit filed against German companies who allegedly profited from such labor during the war.
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