Morris Rothman of Vallejo, Calif., filed a $62,500 suit today against the formr I.G. Farben chemical combine for abuses he suffered at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the war.
The outcome of the case was expected to depend upon a ruling of West Germany’s Supreme Court at Karlsruhe on a suit brought by Norbert Wolheim of New York City. Farben’s successors appealed a Frankfurt court decision awarding Wolheim $2,380. Some 1,500 to 2,000 survivors of the Monowitz rubber factory which I. G. Farben ran at the camp in Poland will be affected by the Karlsruhe court decision.
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