The opposition candidate in Germany’s race for chancellor said he believed German companies that used slave workers under the Nazis had a moral obligation to compensate them. Gerhard Schroeder said the firms should follow the example of Volkswagen, which is creating a fund to compensate former slave laborers. Holocaust survivors filed two class-actions suits last week in the United States against several German firms accused of profiting from such labor.
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