minionofmidas
Lewis Trondheim
Atlas Institution
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« on: August 06, 2004, 07:33:05 AM » |
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The treaty of Versailles has got a terrible press. For instance, there were still as many Poles in Germany as Germans in Poland after that treaty, so that border must be considered as fair.
Although the treaty didn't stipulate the exact amount of reparations to be paid by Germany, and the British and French demands were grotesquely high, Germany ended up paying about 5 Billion pounds - only slightly more, controlled for inflation, than the one billion we forced the French to cough up after the war of 1870/1 - which didn't destroy anything in Germany.
I for one am thankful the Americans entered this war as well as the one before. Might've come a bit earlier though, that would have been even cooler.
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