Restitution: Why did it take 50 years, or did it?

A brief overview of the history of Germany's restitution to surviving Jews of property, money and assets following World War II. Hostility from Britain, Austria and Switzerland was eventually overcome. Following German chancellor Konrad Adenauer's equivocal 1951 admission of German responsibility for the Holocaust, Germany paid Israel approximately $70-million in restitution. By the 1990s, the restitution question had attracted world-wide interest.