The Man Who Worked for VW - on a Diet of Worms Industry and the Nazis: Auschwitz Victim Sues Top Firms That Profited from Concentration Camp Slave Labour

Jury, Louise, The Independent (London, England)

RUDY KENNEDY has worked for some of the most prestigious names in German industry, but they refused to pay him for his troubles.

Now he is determined to make them. Just because he was a Jewish prisoner of the Nazis when he performed his labours does not, he believes, exempt them from that duty. "They exploited us," he said.

Last week, at a meeting in north London, dozens of the former labourers heard details of a campaign to gain redress for that exploitation - of meetings with the German and American ambassadors and talks with lawyers.

Mr Kennedy, 69, is one of at least 170 men and women in Britain who were forced to work for the German war effort. It was …

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Publication information: Article title: The Man Who Worked for VW - on a Diet of Worms Industry and the Nazis: Auschwitz Victim Sues Top Firms That Profited from Concentration Camp Slave Labour. Contributors: Jury, Louise - Author. Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England). Publication date: August 3, 1998. Page number: 6. © 2009 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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