The U.S. military held a German bank responsible for starving to death slave laborers during World War II, according to a recently declassified U.S. report. The 1946 report says some 72 slave laborers died during the war at an industrial affiliate of Deutsche Bank, which is currently awaiting approval of its attempt to buy a U.S. financial institution, Bankers Trust.
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