By June 2018, all countries in Europe, with the exception of Poland, have passed legislation to compensate owners for properties seized under Nazi and communist rule. Poland now considers limited legislation that would nonetheless include provisions for restitution to spouses, children, and grandchildren of now deceased victims.

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In 1986, the United States pays $32 million to honor the 1836 treaty with the Ottawas of Michigan.

March 23, 2019

Canada: $230 million: Japanese Canadians (“Ottawa Will Pay Compensation To Uprooted Japanese-Canadians” by John F. Burns, The New York Times, September 23, 1988).

March 23, 2019

France: The State Department has paid or approved 90 claims for a total of $11 million in reparations by France to former WWII prisoners who were carried to Nazi Death Camps in French trains—the first French reparations paid to Holocaust survivors in the U.S. (“U.S. Begins Paying Out Reparations from France to Holocaust Survivors and Their Heirs” by Katherine Shaver, Washington Post, September 15, 2016).