Descubro esta sorprendente noticia vía Microsiervos. Aparentemente el último pago de la indemnización que se impuso a Alemania en el Tratado de Versalles tras la I Guerra Mundial se efectuará este domingo, día 3 de Octubre de 2010... En el Telegraph lo explican así:
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First World War officially ends
The First World War will officially end on Sunday, 92 years after the guns fell silent, when Germany pays off the last chunk of reparations imposed on it by the Allies.
The final payment of £59.5 million, writes off the crippling debt that was the price for one world war and laid the foundations for another.
Germany was forced to pay the reparations at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as compensation to the war-ravaged nations of Belgium and France and to pay the Allies some of the costs of waging what was then the bloodiest conflict in history, leaving nearly ten million soldiers dead.
The initial sum agreed upon for war damages in 1919 was 226 billion Reichsmarks, a sum later reduced to 132 billion, £22 billion at the time. The bill would have been settled much earlier had Adolf Hitler not reneged on reparations during his reign. Hatred of the settlement agreed at Versailles, which crippled Germany as it tried to shape itself into a democracy following armistice, was of significant importance in propelling the Nazis to power.
"On Sunday the last bill is due and the First World War finally, financially at least, terminates for Germany," said Bild, the country's biggest selling newspaper. Most of the money goes to private individuals, pension funds and corporations holding debenture bonds as agreed under the Treaty of Versailles, where Germany was made to sign the 'war guilt' clause, accepting blame for the war.
France, which had been ravaged by the war, pushed hardest for the steepest possible fiscal punishment for Germany. The principal representative of the British Treasury at the Paris Peace Conference, John Maynard Keynes, resigned in June 1919 in protest at the scale of the demands. "Germany will not be able to formulate correct policy if it cannot finance itself,' he warned.
When the Wall Street Crash came in 1929, the Weimar Republic spiralled into debt. Four years later, Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany.
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Sin duda super curioso, pero tengo una pregunta, ¿tras la segunda guerra mundial no tuvo que realizar pagos Alemania? Porque por esa regla de tres tampoco serían pagados hasta recientemente...
ResponderEliminarUn saludo!!
Jo, y luego no dan hipotecas a gente mayor; pues anda que no han tardado en pagar estos tíos!
ResponderEliminarSi no recuerdo mal, Alemania no pagaría mientras estuviera separada; si se reunificaba, como ocurrió en 1990, debería hacer frente al pago de la deuda que le quedaba.
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