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The Israeli Knesset debated whether to accept Holocaust reparations from Germany in January 1952. Menachem Begin was among the members of the opposition who considered the reparations offer blood money. In September, however, German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signed an agreement that the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany — East Germany never provided any compensation to Holocaust survivors) would provide $715 million in goods and services to the State of Israel as compensation for taking in survivors; $110 million to the Claims Conference for programs to finance the relief, rehabilitation, and resettlement of Jewish Holocaust survivors; and direct reparations to selected individuals over a 12-year period. Germany was once compensating 275,000 survivors. Today, the number is approximately 120,000. Source: American Jewish Historical Society, American Jewish Desk Reference, (The Philip Leff Group, Inc., 1999), p. 30. По идее,  государству уже выплатить давно должны были. Или нет? (В принципе, так как все пошло на уцелевших в Холокосте, аргумент "платят гос-ву, которого не существовало" теряет силу. Но все же...)  
  
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