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An official report commissioned in Germany has revealed that members of the foreign ministry were much more actively involved in the Nazi Holocaust than previously thought. The report is due to be published on Thursday. Steve Evans reports.
One of the authors said the German foreign ministry collaborated with the Nazi’s violent politics and especially assisted in all aspects of the discrimination, deportation, persecution and genocide of the Jews. The historians discovered the travel expenses of one senior diplomat who went to Serbia in 1941 to help organize the killing of Jews. The expenses form said simply "Liquidation of Jews in Belgrade".
The head of the Italian carmaker Fiat has provoked an angry reaction by saying the company would be better off without Italy. Sergio Marchionne cited Italy’s poor record of labor efficiency and industrial competiveness. He said that Fiat’s current profits were more than $2billon but none came from Italy.
A judge in Italy has ruled the value of life of an Albanian workman who died in an industrial accident is worth ten times less than that of an Italian who might die in a similar incident. Each of the parents of the dead Albanian worker was awarded $45,000 in compensation. Here’s David Willey.
The sentence caused some astonishment in legal circles, as the award was based on the earning power of workers in Albania, not in Italy. The judge said the deceased worker’s parents will not entitle to unjustified enrichment. If they had been resident in Italy, they would receive some about 10 times greater. If the judge’s decision is not overturned by a higher court, this will mean that Italian employers will be encouraged to hire workers from poorer countries in preference to those from rich nations.