VW/Audi setting up fund for slave laborers (news)

[RELAYER@aol.com]

I pulled this out of the world section of my local paper last week.  I thought
you all would like to see it since it shows VW/Audi is a responisble coporate
citizen.


VW: We're setting up fund for WWII slave laborers.

Frankfurt, Germany - Volkswagen AG, in a abrupt reversal, said Tuesday that it
planned to set up a fund to compensate slave laborers who were forced to work
for the company during World War II.  The fund is being created in recognition
of "historic and moral duties toward slave laborers who worked for Volkswagen
AG during the Second World War," the company said.  VW said its management
board decided to establish a private fund to offer "humanitarian help to
individual victims who were forced to work in 1944-1945" at the company's
Wolfsburg headquarters.


  /\        _I        Christian J. Long (& Breeze Heller - fiancee)
/    \ I_I I_I I      Orlando, Florida, USA
                       University of Central Florida Alumni 1994
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'98 Audi A4 1.8T            Low pressure V2 rocket
'96 BMW 318ti              Will be replacing with a CGT or 4KQ
'90 Audi 90                   Now in the hands of the mother in law
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Past Audis: '84 CGT, '85CGT, '87.5 CGT, '90 CQ