WAR IN BRIEF : LOS ANGELES : New Accusations of German Aid to Iraq
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Leaders of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies charged that German firms designed and built gas chambers, much like those used to kill millions in Nazi-era concentration camps, for Saddam Hussein’s regime. Executives of the German companies--which were indicted last year for allegedly helping Iraq produce poison gas--knew the chambers were intended for testing chemical weapons, according to officials of the center. A spokesman for the German Consulate in Los Angeles said, “I cannot imagine German companies would have done such a thing.”
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