In addition, individual companies (many of them based in Germany) began to be pressured by survivor groups to compensate former forced laborers.

The company has been a large contributor to a fund set up two years ago by the German government and corporations to compensate surviving laborers.

It is also the first time that a Japanese company has agreed to compensate Chinese forced laborers.

A8 Poland Seeks Role in Fund Poland is seeking a central role in shaping a fund being set up by German companies to compensate forced laborers during World War II.

However, the former West German government paid substantial amounts of money to many of these countries, with the explicit understanding that such money be used to compensate former forced laborers and slave laborers.

Not only did he initially win about $25 a week for himself, but his suit also opened the way for a settlement with Farben that established a fund of $6.43 million to compensate other Jewish laborers.