More companies are sure to follow.
This is why in future all demands should be directed to the new fund and not, however, to the companies that profited from the forced labour. However, the decision half a century later to finally compensate the last living forced labourers for their suffering was not taken on a voluntary basis, nor was it in response to moral principles. The only way to avoid a possible international boycott was by taking responsibility in a reasonably plausible way before a world public for the exploitation of millions during the period of fascist tyranny. This becomes particularly clear in the case of the Deutsche Bank and its chairman Rolf-Ernst Breuer. Following the merger of Daimler with the US car giant Chrysler, which had gone off smoothly, the Jewish World Congress intervened in the case of the Deutsche Bank's merger.