German auto manufacturer Volkswagen said there was no legal basis for a planned lawsuit against the company for back wages by some 30 Hungarian Jews who worked for the firm as slave laborers during World War II. The company said it could not be held responsible for compensation to people forced into slave labor by the Nazi regime.
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