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reparation (Noun) A payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s). reparation (Noun) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway. Origin: From reparationem, from reparatio.
Summary. Reparations were the payments which required Germany to pay to repair all the damage of the war. The first problem was to work out how much. The figure was changed many times during 1919 1921.inally, as the crisis got worse, in 1932, the Allies ended reparations. Reparations were the payments required by the Treaty of Versailles, by which Germany had to pay to repair all the damage of the war. To the victors, it seemed fair.