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Germany to pay Nazi slave laborers
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BERLIN After two years of intricate negotiations, the German
parliament voted today to free payments from a $4.6 billion fund for
surviving Nazi-era slave laborers, providing compensation in what the
nation's leader called ``the last great open chapter of our
historical responsibility.''
``I want to start with a word which I think reflects the relief we
all feel today,'' Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said in opening
parliament's debate on the topic. ``That word is: `finally.' ''
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Germany to ask NJ court to dismiss slave-labor suit against Degussa
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