High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany (German: Luxemburger Abkommen, Hebrew: ???? ????????) was signed on September 10, 1952, and entered in force on March 27, 1953. According to the Agreement, West Germany was to pay Israel for the slave labor and persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, and to compensate for Jewish property that was stolen by the Nazis. According to the website of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, or Claims Conference, "In response to calls from Jewish organizations and the State of Israel, in September 1951 Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany addressed his Parliament: `? unspeakable crimes have been committed in the name of the German people, calling for moral and material indemnity ? The Federal Government are prepared, jointly with representatives of Jewry and the State of Israel ? to bring about a solution of the material indemnity problem, thus easing the way tothe spiritual settlement of infinite suffering.'