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Immunity ‘assurance’

US and German negotiations are well on the way to setting up a DM10bn (US$4.86bn) fund to compensate more than 1mn people forced into slave labour during World War II. The clincher was ‘substantial assurance’ that US courts will dismiss subsequent lawsuits against German companies.

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