The Reparations Agreement Between West Germany and Israel entered into force in March 1953.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 10, 2026
The Reparations Agreement between West Germany and Israel (Luxembourg Agreement) is documented as entering into force in March 1953, with the exact date given as 27 March 1953 by Wikipedia and EBSCO, and ratification by the Bundestag on 18 March 1953 in other sources.
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… And this was, to be clear, this came about, uhm, based on what was called in the Buddhist Republic the Luxemburger Abkommen. Um, it was formally branded the Reparations Agreement Between West Germany and Israel. It was signed on September 10th, 1952. It officially entered into force in March of '53, and according to the agreement, among other things, the Bosnian Republic was required to pay Israel for the cost of, quote, "resettling so great a number of UP of uprooted and destitute Jewish refugees after the war," to compensate individual Jews for a …
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Supports. EBSCO states the Luxembourg Agreements 'went into force on March 27, 1953,' directly confirming the March 1953 entry into force.[1]
Supports. Wikipedia's article on the agreement states it 'entered in force on March 27, 1953,' and reports Bundestag passage on March 18, 1953.[2]
Supports. Academic work by Siemens (2023) states that in March 1953 both West Germany and Israel ratified the Luxembourg Agreement and that it entered into force on 27 March 1953.[3]
Context. Some sources give March 21, 1953 (CIE) as the effective date, a minor discrepancy that does not affect the claim that it took effect in March 1953.[4]
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- 1Germany Agrees to Pay Reparations to Israel - EBSCOebsco.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 2Reparations Agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Reparations and Oil in the Cold War: British Perspectives on the Luxembourg Agreement of 1952 - Daniel Siemens, 2024journals.sagepub.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Israel Accepts German Reparations | CIEisraeled.org · not rated · cited for: context
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