TVNZ reports:
Germany will be paying off the last few monetary
penalties imposed on it by the Allies 92 years ago, this
coming Sunday.
The final payments of $127 million will officially end the
reparations the country was made to pay after World War I,
which officially ended on November 11, 1918.
Germany was forced to pay the reparations at the Treaty of
Versailles in 1919 as compensation to the nations of Belgium and
France and to pay the Allies some of the costs of waging a war that
left nearly 10 million soldiers dead.
I had no idea the Germans were still paying reparations. It seems a bit absurd, when you consider the burden of reparations on Germany was one of the causes of World War II.
Like most F**k up's it probably seemed a good idea at the time !
ReplyDeleteand when they have bailed out Greece and Spain with EU funds they can start paying for WW2 !!
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