GERMANY: EFFORTS TO COMPENSATE NAZI ERA FORCED LABOURERS ARE HANGING IN THE BALANCE

Record ID: 983739

  • Title: GERMANY: EFFORTS TO COMPENSATE NAZI ERA FORCED LABOURERS ARE HANGING IN THE BALANCE
  • Date: 8th December 1999
  • Summary: WIESBADEN, GERMANY (DECEMBER 4, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. EXT/SLV: EXTERIOR BUILDING / WOLFGANG GIBOWSKI ENTERING BUILDING (2 SHOTS) 0.17 2. MV: SET UP SHOT OF WOLFGANG GIBOWSKI 0.24 3. SV: SOUNDBITE (German) WOLFGANG GIBOWSKI, SPOKESMAN FOR A GROUP OF OVER 50 FIRMS WHICH HAVE PROPOSED HOLOCAUST COMPENSATION FUND: We are awaiting a message from Stuart Eizenstat, the American Head of the delegation, and we'll have to see what he says. 0.34 4. C/A: CAMERA CREW 0.39 5. SV: SOUNDBITE (German) WOLFGANG GIBOWSKI: "The offer is an offer from the German industry and the German government. The two have put a total of eight million (marks) on the table and both have declared - the Chancellor in a letter to the American President - that there is no chance to alter the offer. 0.55 6. C/A: CAMERA 1.01 7. SV: SOUNDBITE (German) WOLFGANG GIBOWSKI: We are trying to achieve a result by the end of this year and we hope the Americans' position will make this possible. 1.15 8. SV: GIBOWSKI GIVING INTERVIEW 1.22 9. SV: SOUNDBITE (English) WOLFGANG GIBOWSKI: The talks have not failed and I see a chance for a solution. We are waiting for a statement from (U.S.) deputy (treasury) secretary (Stuart) Eizenstat and we know that he is meeting the plaintiff's lawyers tonight in Washington.We can expect a reaction tonight or tomorrow. 1.46 10. C/A: CAMERA 1.51 11. SV: SOUNDBITE (English) WOLFGANG GIBOWSKI: The German offer is a combined offer of the German economy of five billion deutschmarks and of the German government of three billion deutschmarks, altogether around 4.5 billion dollars. Chancellor Schroeder has talked to President Clinton several times and he has written a letter in which he is saying very clearly that we cannot improve this offer of 4.5 billion dollars 2.30 12. CU: NOTEPAD 2.36 13. SV: SOUNDBITE (English) WOLFGANG GIBOWSKI: We are looking for a quick answer now and we would have liked to have such an answer by the end of this year. I hope that the statement by Eizenstat will give us the chance to have such an answer by the end of the year. 2.53 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: WIESBADEN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
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