If he truly considered it reparations (but obviously he did not) then his heirs would be asking for the tablet to be given to Yad Vashem or another worthy charity.
I believe that was for forced labor and stolen property of persons that became Israelis.
Non-Israeli Jewish victims of the Nazis were not part of the settlement.
One of my grandparents had a lovely house in France stolen by the French -— the Nazis gave it to a collaborator; he attempted to return in 1947 and was run out of town by policemen he knew by name and had gone to school with. Lawsuit went nowhere -— the Nazi transfer for no money was “legal at the time.”
Nazis locked him in a camp and murdered his family, so he keeps some of their stuff. Totally fair. If they don’t like it in Berlin, then they can call it a lesson learned.
And it makes no difference what Israel did or didn’t negotiate. Israeli negotiations commenced and proceeded without this man’s consent or assent.
And that’s some pretty neat legalistic BS. A Polish mans justice, negotiated away by a settlement between Germany and a nation that didn’t exist as a nation state when the tort occurred. The Nazis always a legalistic bunch.
Break into my house, murder my loved ones, attack me. When you are driven out by greater force, I get to keep your rolex you dropped on the floor.
The world is rough, leave people alone. That’s way you get keep your own stuff. That or be badass enough to keep anyone from taking it. It’s a rough lesson, thought they understood it.