Otto Lambsdorff (R), the chief representative of the German government speaks to reporters while U.S..,...

Otto Lambsdorff (R), the chief representative of the German government speaks to reporters while U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat listens, after talks in Washington October 7 in which German firms and their government offered 6 billion marks (US.3 billion) to compensate hundreds of thousands of Nazi era slaves and forced laborers.[ Lawyers pressing suits against the companies immediately denounced the offer as miserly and disgusting. Lambsdorff told reporters that it had been hard enough to raise 4 billion marks from the companies, some of which did not use slave labor, and others of which share little more than a name with the companies of the 1940's. ] ??»