16 Companies Continue Talks on Claims Over Nazi Slave Labor
Compensation negotiations with 16 German companies that used Nazi slave labor will go forward despite the dismissal of several related lawsuits, a top Treasury Department official said Tuesday.
“The companies have assured us formally that they wish to continue participating,” Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart E. Eizenstat told a hearing of the House Banking Committee. Eizenstat said that although the companies want a legal conclusion, they have always viewed it as “primarily a moral issue.”
In two separate rulings Monday, federal judges dismissed cases against Ford Motor Co. and two German companies.
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