Chief negotiator of the German government Otto Graf Lambsdorff (L) receives congratulations from parliamentary floor leader of the Green party Kerstin Mueller and her Christian Democratic counterpart Friedrich Merz (R) as Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder talks to Finance Minister Hans Eichel (backR) after a debate at the German lower house of parliament in Berlin May 30, 2001. The Bundestag gave overwhelming approval for compensation payments from a $4.5 billion fund to about one million former Nazi slave labourers.

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