V2's and class-action suits

Robert L. Zamsky rzamsky at acsu.buffalo.edu
Mon Jun 28 17:29:42 CDT 1999


Just a quick anecdote:

Last night, I stumbled across 60 minutes just as they were airing a bit
on perhaps the most recent legal action taken against German companies
who benefited by forced/slave labor during WW II.  Seems there is
another class-action suit, this time (and again, for many of these
companies) against VW, Daimler-Benz (don't know how that plays out with
the Chrysler thing), Krups, Seimens, etc.  The two principal interviews
were with a woman who worked at VW and a man who worked at Mittelworke,
both as slave labor.

The man's description of life at Mittelworke was, as might be expected,
horrifying. He said his most prominent memory was walking out each
morning to see how many had been hung by the cranes overhead -- usually
a dozen or so.

Just FYI, not sure what to do with it in any "intelligent" way, if
anything can be.

-rz




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