A U.S. lawyer for Hungarian Holocaust survivors filed two class-action lawsuits Thursday, seeking compensation for slave labor at some of Germany’s largest firms during World War II. Lawyer Ed Fagan said the cases were the first legal attempts to unify Hungarian slave-labor claims. The firms targeted include German-U.S. auto giant DaimlerChrysler, the legal successor to the wartime munitions firm AEG.
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