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On a visit to Washington, German Foreign...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eEnglish/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eU-S lawmakers are presenting a bill to Congress which would ensure that Nazi-era slave labour camp survivors would receive compensation for their forced work during World War Two. \u003cbr/\u003eOn a visit to Washington, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said his government would not block any negotiations between German industry and former slave labourers.\u003cbr/\u003eU-S lawmakers will introduce a bill which if approved would ensure that slave labourers who worked for German industries in forced labour camps during World War Two could seek compensation under the U-S court system.\u003cbr/\u003eThe move, led by senators Charles Schumer and Robert Torricelli comes days before a new round of negotiations with many of Germany's largest corporations and the German government. \u003cbr/\u003eAmong the companies involved in the negotiations are Volkswagen, BMW, Bayer, Daimler-Chrysler, BASF, Allianz, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, Hoechst and Siemens.\u003cbr/\u003eAmerican companies like Ford and General Motors, which allegedly benefited from slave labour at the German plants during the Nazi era, are not participating in the talks.\u003cbr/\u003eSenator Charles Schumer, one of the backers of the slave labour bill said it was scandalous that the companies involved had made no compensation to their victims.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003eFifty-five years later these companies these companies involved in slave labour have not been forced to pay. They prosper and some even pay pensions to the war criminals who carried out these policies.  but they have not paid one cent to the people on whose backs these fortunes were built.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat from New York \u003cbr/\u003eGerman companies are under pressure from a series of U-S class-action suits demanding compensation from modern corporations with a record of using slave labour during Nazi rule of Germany. \u003cbr/\u003eLawyers recently reduced their demand from 30 (B) billion to 12 (B) billion dollars, but have refused to go below that.\u003cbr/\u003eSenator Robert Torricelli, the other backer of the bill, warned the German companies that the problem would not go away.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003eUnder no circumstances in the remaining years of the lives of these victims are they going to find that there is not compensation for a fair settlement. There is going to be a fair settlement by one means or another. It would be foolish for any of those corporations, who are now at issue, who participated in this scheme to rob people of years of their lives and to force their labour, to believe that time will solve this problem, that we will go away or ever fail. We will not fail.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Senator Robert Torricelli, Democrat from New Jersey \u003cbr/\u003eThe bill would allow survivors to sue companies that profited at the laborers' expense through forced labour, involuntary medical experiments, or the Nazi \"Aryanization\" Program that transferred Jewish-owned land to Germans of Aryan descent. \u003cbr/\u003eThe bill would also extend the statute of limitations on these claims to the year 2010.\u003cbr/\u003eOne of the victims of the slave labour system spoke bitterly of his childhood.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE:(English)\u003cbr/\u003eI was denied schooling, I was denied food, I was denied almost air, you know, breathing. They grabbed me and they put me on a truck and sent me away to an ammunition factory. I didn't have any knowledge what to do. We were forced under gun to work very hard.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Ben Schreibman, slave camp survivor\u003cbr/\u003eThe attorney for the surviving wartime slaves said the companies could well afford to pay their debt to their victims.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003eThey have enough money to aggrandise themselves and to  and to enrich themselves but  not to pay their just debts to these victims of these horrors.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Mel Weiss, attorney for survivors\u003cbr/\u003eGerman government envoys, industry representatives and lawyers for East European victims are seeking ways to resolve a seeming impasse that threatens to halt a planned Nov. 16-17 meeting in Bonn on the amount of compensation to be paid victims.\u003cbr/\u003eOn a visit to Washington, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer accepted Germany has a moral responsibility to compensate those who suffered under the Nazis.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003eWe are fully committed to a positive outcome of the talks and we hope because we accept the moral responsibility of Germany. We accept the moral responsibility to find a solution.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Joschka Fischer, German Foreign Minister\u003cbr/\u003eFischer said today his government would not be the cause of any breakdown in negotiations between Eastern Europeans and German industry on compensation for Nazi-era slave labourers.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003eOur position will be that we will not block any positive outcome but we see obviously that there are the obligations of our industry. And of course, on the other hand, there are the interests of our industry that there should be at the end positive outcome and positive outcome means that our industry will have, as far as it's possible, security and that this compromise with them a good compromise.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Joschka Fischer, German Foreign Minister\u003cbr/\u003eHistorians estimate that more than 12 million people were forced to produce materials for the Nazis or to replace\u003cbr/\u003eworkers who became Nazi soldiers, sometimes without pay.\u003cbr/\u003eTwo million or more are believed to be still alive.\u003cbr/\u003eWashington DC, USA, 4 November 1999 and File      XFA\u003cbr/\u003eWashington D.C, USA - 4 November 1999\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide press conference on Nazi slave labour\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat from New York\u003cbr/\u003e3. Cutaway\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator Robert Torricelli, Democrat from New Jersey\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaways\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ben Schreibman, slave camp survivor\u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mel Weiss, attorney for survivors\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide press conference Madeleine Albright and Joschka Fischer \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Joschka Fischer, German Foreign Minister\u003cbr/\u003e11. Cutaway\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Joschka Fischer, German Foreign Minister\u003cbr/\u003e13. Cutaway\u003cbr/\u003eFile  \u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of slave labourers in IG Farben work camp\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various black and white file of Monowitz camp near Auschwitz\u003cbr/\u003e16. 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