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Now that you mention it. Modern Germany should pay the US enormous sums in reparations for our role in destroying Nazi Germany, saving Western Europe (which Rus

Now that you mention it. Modern Germany should pay the US enormous sums in reparations for our role in destroying Nazi Germany, saving Western Europe (which Russia did not do, Russia enslaved half of Europe), freeing people from Nazi death camps, propping up a post-war democratic Germany against the conquering monster to the East. Not just the US of course. Britain and France among others are owed a lot more in reparations for what Germany did and the long-term consequences. The US got repaid - only in part - for its war lending. It has never been paid reparations for its losses in WW2 (including 400,000 military deaths). What's the reparations tally for 400,000 dead, going by the numbers thrown around these days? $10 trillion? Germany and Japan can figure out the split on that and then write some big fat checks to the families in question.

gibreparations 6y ago
You're joking but what you describe is pretty much the Treaty of Versailles, which was actually one of the triggers of WW2.
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  I study WW2, and FYI it's much more complicated than "the Treaty of Versailles." The problem is that the "state" that started WW2 was the Austria-Hungarian Empire (against Serbia), and Germany was just a treaty ally. But then A-H dissolved, leaving Germany holding the bag. It didn't help that Germany refused to negotiate a peace treaty earlier, and that they destroyed the Alsace region during their retreat. But in the end, it would have taken an occupation to demonstrate that Germany actually lost, and that didn't happen. Hence the later Allied occupations of Germany and Japan in WW2.
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  > the "state" that started WW2 was the Austria-Hungarian Empire typo, make that WW1.
redis_mlc 6y ago
I study WW2. One of the most startling things, and one that takes the longest to comprehend, is that the entire industrial output of the US went into the war effort for about 5 years.

gibreparations 6y ago

You're joking but what you describe is pretty much the Treaty of Versailles, which was actually one of the triggers of WW2.

redis_mlc 6y ago
I study WW2, and FYI it's much more complicated than "the Treaty of Versailles." The problem is that the "state" that started WW2 was the Austria-Hungarian Empire (against Serbia), and Germany was just a treaty ally. But then A-H dissolved, leaving Germany holding the bag. It didn't help that Germany refused to negotiate a peace treaty earlier, and that they destroyed the Alsace region during their retreat. But in the end, it would have taken an occupation to demonstrate that Germany actually lost, and that didn't happen. Hence the later Allied occupations of Germany and Japan in WW2.
redis_mlc 6y ago
> the "state" that started WW2 was the Austria-Hungarian Empire typo, make that WW1.

redis_mlc 6y ago

I study WW2. One of the most startling things, and one that takes the longest to comprehend, is that the entire industrial output of the US went into the war effort for about 5 years.