Scholars know that keeping up with the Holocaust's history requires keeping an eye on late-breaking news. The survivors' legacy provides startling examples. In 1990 no one could have predicted that Steven Spielberg would launch the Shoah Foundation. In 1995, 50 years after the Holocaust ended, few expected that the 20th century would end with major, highly publicized international attempts to recover the huge amounts of money and property that had been expropriated from Holocaust victims. Yet no repercussions of the Holocaust have received more turn-of-the-century headlines than the complex issues surrounding the question of whether anything approximating just restitution for stolen property and slave labor can be accomplished before the survivors are gone. Along with the payments for slave labor that legal proceedings may award, the immense amounts and values of the property involved--bank accounts, stock holdings, insurance policies, stolen land, houses, buildings, businesses, jewelry, and artworks, to mention just some examples--bear witness all over again about the vastness of Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" and the economic greed that helped to motivate it.