German and Jewish negotiators reached agreement on how to distribute a $5 billion fund for Nazi-era forced and slave laborers. Each of the approximately 240,000 ex-slave laborers who are still alive will receive about $7,500 each, while up to $2,500 will go to the approximately 1 million living forced laborers.
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