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Wow, that's interesting. I didn't know they resumed payment after WW2 - I always assumed that it was over when Hitler refused to continue paying. My history te
by johkra 16y ago
Wow, that's interesting. I didn't know they resumed payment after WW2 - I always assumed that it was over when Hitler refused to continue paying.
My history teacher (in Germany) didn't mention anything about continued payments, either.
I don't know how to feel about this, but given that our own government created a huge debt after the 1974 oil crisis and again after the unification, I couldn't blame our debt on the reparation payments.
- brazzy 16y agoIt's even more interesting: payments were officially suspended in 1953 until Germany would be reunited - which nobody expected to happen in the foreseeable future. The bonds were near worthless curiosities until things happened quite suddenly in 1989...