Friday, April 16, 2021

Germany Pays

 Did you know: Germany officially paid off both its World War 1 and World War 2 Reparations (not including its Holocaust Reparations) to the Allies on October 3, 2010 (the 20th anniversary of German Reunification and 92 years after World War 1 ended and 65 years after World War 2 ended?)

The Weimer Republic repaid its World War 1 Reparations from 1921-1932. Nazi Germany paid no World War 1 Reparations from 1933-1945.

West Germany started paying off its World War 1 and World War 2 Reparations in 1953 (under the London Agreement) and its Holocaust Reparations in 1952 (under the Luxembourg Agreement.)

East Germany never gave World War 1, World War 2 or Holocaust Reparations to any country (although the Soviets did take 1,710,000 ethnic German Forced Labors from around Europe and finished products and raw materials from East Germany from 1945 until Stalin died in 1953 - the ethnic German Forced Laborers were only allowed back to East or West Germany starting in 1956 (580,000 ethnic German Forced Laborers died or were killed in the USSR after the war.)

Germany continues to pay its Holocaust Reparations to Individual Victims and their families (but no longer to any country.)

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