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CLASS ACTION STATEMENT BY US LAW FIRM COHEN, MILSTEIN, HAUSFIELD & TOLL P.L.L.C: Slave Labor at Royal/Dutch Shell Group

CLASS ACTION STATEMENT BY US LAW FIRM COHEN, MILSTEIN, HAUSFIELD & TOLL P.L.L.C: Slave Labor at Royal/Dutch Shell Group   Posted 10 May 2004

Approximately 1,385 forced laborers worked at oil refineries and petrochemical plants owned and operated by the Royal/Dutch Shell Group during the Second World War. These workers, largely civilians from Eastern Europe and the Low Countries of Western Europe, were compelled to work on the grounds of Shell’s German and Austrian subsidiaries, Rhenania GmbH and Shell Austria AG, respectively. At these locations, the forced laborers toiled long hours under the watchful (and often brutal) guard of Hitler’s S.S. men. Deported from their home countries by force, these workers were housed in filthy barracks, and were denied freedom of movement and proper nutrition. For their work, which was contracted from the S.S., the laborers received no pay from Shell or the German Government. read more

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