1.   Could the slave-plantation economy bear the double cost of investing heavily in both mechanisation and slave workers?

2.   Also, Austria, like Germany, recently agreed to pay reparations to Third Reich slave workers.

3.   For the first few years, home turned out to be the barracks of former concentration camps built by the Nazis to house slave workers.

4.   Most negotiators agree in principle that slave workers should receive more compensation.

5.   Representatives of the former slave workers, the German and American governments and Jewish groups will meet in Bonn on Tuesday for a new round of negotiations.

6.   A stockholders group will try to get reparations for former concentration camp slave workers who labored for IG Farben in World War II.

7.   But it refuses to accept individual wage claims by slave workers, who were technically working for private companies.

8.   Fearing lawsuits of the kind that dogged Swiss banks, German firms have suggested they could pay into a government-sponsored fund that would compensate former slave workers.

9.   German firm refuses to compensate slave workers.