11.   It thus ends a half-century of denial of responsibility by German manufacturers including the German subsidiaries of Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Inc.

12.   Mitsubishi of Japan offered a mini-van, while General Motors pushed a Corsa model from Adam Opel, its German subsidiary.

13.   Nissan Motor Deutschland GmbH, the German subsidiary of Nissan Motor Co. of Japan, will be bringing a new model to the already intense compact car segment.

14.   Part of the total compensation will probably come from American companies with German subsidiaries that used forced labor in the war.

15.   The agreement, which the United States and German governments helped negotiate, covers all German companies, including the German subsidiaries of IBM and other American multinationals.

16.   The vote ends a half-century of denial of responsibility by German manufacturers, including the German subsidiaries of Ford and General Motors.

17.   There is no question that both companies had large German subsidiaries, nor that these subsidiaries provided ample slave-labor-produced materiel to the Nazi war effort.

18.   Those include Deutsche Telekom, Preussag, Robert Bosch, Bertelsmann and the German subsidiaries of Ford and General Motors.

19.   Opel, the German subsidiary of General Motors, opened a new factory in Gleiwitz, Poland, last Thursday.

20.   A district court in Frankfurt on Wednesday rejected a defamation suit by carmaker Volkswagen against General Motors Corp. and its German subsidiary, Opel.