Looted art is addressed in this report in the sections on the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets and in the country surveys. Communal property . A great deal of Jewish communal property, religious and secular, was confiscated during the Holocaust and nationalized after the war by communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. Restitution of and compensation for confiscated communal property began to be addressed systematically in the 1990s, after the dissolution of the communist regimes. Restitution and compensation is handled by the individual governments.
Results vary widely from country to country.
German reparations payments . During the Cold War, the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe prevented Holocaust survivors and heirs from receiving such payments. In many cases, German deadlines for claims expired. In the 1990s, after the dissolution of many communist regimes, renewed German reparations payments were negotiated between the German government, Central and East European governments, and Jewish organizations. Questions remain about the size and duration of these renewed payments.