1.   American companies with German subsidiaries, including General Motors and Ford Motor Co., are also expected to participate.

2.   Among them was Carl-Peter Forster, the production chief, who is now president of Adam Opel A.G., the German subsidiary of General Motors.

3.   Automaker Adam Opel AG said two nonexecutive directors and a top manager resigned in connection with a probe into corruption at the German subsidiary of General Motors Corp.

4.   AXA said the unit would be operated through its German subsidiary, AXA Direkt Versicherung.

5.   Currently, shares of BBC and Asea are traded in Switzerland and Sweden, while the German subsidiary is listed in Frankfurt.

6.   General Motors is involved because of its German subsidiary, Opel.

7.   Gentz said the German subsidiary of General Motors, Adam Opel, has in principle pledged to give money to the fund.

8.   It has been burned by disappointing results from its German mobile subsidiary, debitel, which offers service in Germany, France and the Netherlands.

9.   It also includes the German subsidiary of General Motors, Adam Opel, as well as the German subsidiary of Ford.

10.   It is unclear how many other American companies have German subsidiaries that used forced laborers.