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BBC News | Americas | German firms face slave labour case
Volkswagen is one of the companies named in lawsuits filed in the US by Holocaust survivors who say they were used as slave labour. One survivor, Elly Gross, said she was separated from her family at Auschwitz, where her mother and brother died, and taken to work at a VW factory. She said: "Auschwitz was the hell. The factory where I worked was the skirt of the hell."
Tuesday, 1 September, 1998
Company names appearing in this article are:
- Audi AG (a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG) (Germany)
- BMW AG (BMW Group) (Germany)
- Daimler-Benz (now Daimler AG) (Germany)
- Diehl (now Diehl Stiftung & Co. (Germany)
- Krupp-Hoesch (ThyssenKrupp AG) (Germany)
- Leica Camera AG (Germany)
- MAN Group (predecessor GHH Fahrzeuge GmbH, Oberhausen) MAN Group sold off GHH Fahrzeuge GmbH, Oberhausen. Shares of company taken over by Schmidt, Kranz & Co. (Germany)
- Siemens AG (Germany)
- Volkswagen AG (Germany)
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