There is no possible way anyone can rationally calculate what each person should pay and to whom.
It is a fallacy (encouraged by lawyers) to think that all wrongs can be paid off somehow. There isn’t enough wealth in the whole world to pay off all the wrongs that people have suffered throughout history, and that many of the same people have committed.
I guess I could dream about my distant ancestors who were dragged out of a comfortable home in France, and had their throats cut in the street, while their neighbors pillaged their belongings, and their 14-year-old son escaped. This was the St. Batholomew’s Day Massacre. I would have to be somewhat crazy to think that the French would ever try to pay the descendants of this disaster — but France already lost, for they killed or drove out many of their best people, and enriched the countries in which the survivors took refuge.
I have a friend (Jewish) whose father escaped the Nazis, who confiscated the family’s business. After the war, the DDR took over the same company as a VEB (socialist enterprise). After reunification, the German government offered to return such properties, and my friend’s family declined. He told me that they were thankful to have come to the US, had made a good life here, and saw no reason why the grandchildren of the perpetrators should pay for a misfortune committed by their ancestors. That is an inspiring example of forgiveness — and it is a necessity, ultimately.
"St. Batholomew’s Day Massacre"