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After World War II, both the Federal Republic and Democratic Republic of Germany were obliged to pay war reparations to the Allied governments, according to the Potsdam Conference. Other Axis nations were obliged to pay war reparations according to the Paris Peace Treaties, 1947 .
10 Φεβ 2024 · Germany is still paying reparations for World War II. Some countries contest that they are still owed reparations, and Germany continues to face pressure to finalize payments. Moreover, Germany continues to pay monetary reparations to Holocaust survivors.
In 2001, 56 years after the cessation of hostilities in World War II, Germany’s federal government and a group of large German companies entered into a new reparations agreement aimed at compensating people who had been forced to work for the Third Reich against their will.
With the conclusion of the London Debts Agreement, the Federal Republic was able to legally declare indemnification of the forced laborers a reparations matter and postpone it indefinitely until such time as a peace treaty might be signed with Germany.
The use of slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany (German: Zwangsarbeit) and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented scale. [2] It was a vital part of the German economic exploitation of conquered territories.
German Holocaust reparations were paid for crimes against humanity that were committed before they became formally illegal in international law. The U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials against German war criminals, Robert H. Jackson (1949), defended the Nuremberg judgments against the charge of
In what follows, I will first present the results of my case studies of Poland and Greece, since they cover the historical framework of German occupation policy during World War II and the current conflicts over reparations.
