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On this location in Brilon-Wald this organisation - Deutsche Gold und Silberscheide Anstalt ('Degussa') - used slave labor. Degussa owned or participated in Swiss companies. Nicholas R. Milroy, 'German Economic Penetration in Switzerland,'(U.S. Department of State Study, prepared for Washington Conference on German External Assets and Looted Gold, 1953) (hereinafter, 'Milroy'), at 12; Consolidated List at 22. German Entities (Private or State-Owned) that exploited Slave Labor and that had unspecified Swiss Assets or Swiss Bank Accounts or Swiss Bank Accounts.
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