Gross v. German Foundation Industrial Initiative

OPINION

BASSLER, District Judge.

These actions arise from initial efforts made by Holocaust victims to obtain money judgments from German corporations (“German Industry"’) for their complicity in exploiting plaintiffs as slave laborers1 during World War II. What remains here is a burgeoning dispute over certain terms to an agreement principally between counsel for Nazi-era victims, the German Government and German Industry, and facilitated by the United States, which in the dawning days of the twenty-first century appeared to tuck neatly to bed a giant dispute, fifty years in the making,…