WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -War reparations are compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other. They are intended to cover damage or injury inflicted during a war.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reparations were intended for reconstruction and compensating families who had been bereaved by the war.

Detailed explanation-3: -After World War II both West Germany and East Germany were obliged to pay war reparations to the Allied governments, according to the Potsdam Conference. Other Axis nations were obliged to pay war reparations according to the Paris Peace Treaties, 1947.

Detailed explanation-4: -: the act of making amends, offering expiation, or giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury. : something done or given as amends or satisfaction.

Detailed explanation-5: -Word forms: reparations plural. uncountable noun [also N in pl] Reparations are sums of money that are paid after a war by the defeated country for the damage and injuries it caused in other countries.

Detailed explanation-6: -What are war reparations? At the end of a war, countries are required to make payments as a way of making up for the damage inflicted. This was the case at the end of World Wars I and II. The debt can be paid back for many reasons, including machinery damage, and forced labor.