Reprivatization refers to the process of restoring to its former owners properties seized by a government , or to the process of compensating previously uncompensated former owners . This is often a component of larger privatization schemes . The term is most often used in the connection with privatization in former Soviet Bloc countries or in reference to settlements concerning the property of murdered or displaced European Jews . The difference between reprivatization and privatization is that only state ( nationwide ) property can become the subject of the transaction , but not municipal property . The economic content of these concepts also has differences : the privatized property is obtained due to the costs of the state , but the reprivatized property previously belonged to individuals who received income from its exploitation , they also created it
murdered or displaced
The Holocaust
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