US State Department offers to intervene in slave labor compensation dispute

The US State Department has offered to help Poland in its negotiations with Germany concerning compensation for Poles forced to work as slave laborers u nder the Third Reich. According to Zycie, a senior State Department official , possibly James Bindenagel who is responsible for Holocaust affairs, will b e visiting Poland soon. Despite six months of talks, Germany and Poland have failed to reach agreement on the issue of the exchange rate for calculating compensation payments. Poland estimates that the unfavorable rate used has m eant its citizens have lost out to the tune of zl.116 million. (Zycie, p. 7) A.Z.