Exchange rate mix-up gives rise to dispute over compensation payment

A dispute has broken out over the calculation of compensation for Polish citizens forced to work as slave laborers by the Nazis. On Friday, the Polish-German reconciliation fund FPNP indicated that the total amount payable to the Polish World War II slave laborers would be DM1.812 billion, but subsequently it was discovered that the conversion rate had been fixed when the zloty was particularly strong against the euro. If yesterday's exchange rate had been used instead of the earlier one, the Polish slave laborers would have been entitled to an additional zl.63 million. The FPNP, believing this to be unfair, is planning to complain to the German chancellor in an effort to resolve the issue. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, B1) M.T.