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Germans underestimate Nazi forced labour: survey

Less than one in five (19 percent) Germans is aware of the full scale of the use of forced labour by the Nazis in World War II, a survey showed on Friday.

Only 13 percent of Germans over 65 correctly estimated the number of people from all over Europe forced to work in horrendous conditions for the German war machine at more than 13 million, the poll by Infratest-Dimap showed....
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