In 1960, Germany paid 280 million marks to reclaim land annexed by the Dutch
Following World War II, a complex territorial dispute between neighbors was settled when West Germany paid a massive sum to reclaim border lands that had been annexed by the Netherlands.
On April 8, 1960, West Germany and the Netherlands signed an agreement to resolve lingering border tensions from the aftermath of the war. After 1945, the Dutch had annexed several German border areas as a form of reparations for the Nazi occupation.
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