The Slovak government said it would not interfere in a dispute between Slovakia’s Jewish community and Germany over compensation for the deportation of 58,000 Jews to Nazi concentration camps by the pro-Nazi wartime Slovak state. In March, a Berlin court rejected a $60 million lawsuit lodged by Jewish community leaders, ruling they were not entitled to claim compensation on behalf of the victims.
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