Kohl awarded record damages over memoirs
Published: 10:04 PM,Apr 27,2017 | EDITED : 07:04 AM,Apr 30,2024
A German court awarded former chancellor Helmut Kohl record damages on Thursday in a lawsuit against his one-time ghostwriters for publishing an embarrassing unauthorised biography. The judges in Cologne ordered the book’s two authors and their publisher to pay one million euros ($1.1 million) to Kohl, 87.