The schedule of payments has been put in doubt by German industry's failure until Tuesday to come up with its half of the $ 4.8 billion fund and its insistence on legal guarantees that German firms which employed Nazi slave and forced labor won't face future suits.
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The London Schedule of Payments, of 5 May 1921, established the full liability of the combined Central Powers at Reparation Commission and the Bank for International Settlements gave a total German payment of gold marks, whereas historian Niall Ferguson estimated that Germany paid no more than gold marks.
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The schedule of payments has been put in doubt by German industry's failure until Tuesday to come up with its half of the $ 4 . 8 billion fund and its insistence on legal guarantees that German firms which employed Nazi slave and forced labor won't face future suits.
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Monday's package also includes a restructuring of an estimated $ 60 billion worth of Russia's domestic debt _ in particular bonds known as GKOs and OFZs due to mature before Dec . 31, 1999 . Details of those conversions will be released on Wednesday, but experts on Monday were expecting a variety of options, which could include a schedule of payments staggered over several years.
