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03.12.2009

Germany still paying First World War reparations

 

Germany is still paying reparations for the First World War. More than 90 years after the signing of the peace treaty of Versailles, Germany still has some 56 million euros ($84 million) outstanding.

Germany is still paying off war reparations agreed at the Treaty of Versailles, it was reported Wednesday in the national mass circulation daily Bild.

"The amount still owed for interest and clearance payments is around 56 million euros," Boris Knapp of the German Finance Agency, the state body that manages the government’s debts and borrowing, told the newspaper.

The money is being paid out to creditors holding bonds, and is expected to be paid off by October 3, 2010.

Under the Treaty of Versailles, signed on June 28, 1919, Germany accepted responsibility for the First World War and agreed to pay the Allied victors 226 billion Reichsmarks, a sum reduced in 1921 to 132 billion Reichsmarks.

By 1952 Germany had paid some 1.5 billion Reichsmarks ($357 million by 1952 exchange rates) in war reparations to Allied countries, but the balance was suspended in 1953 when Germany was divided into East and West.

Those demands came back into force at the reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990, with repayments to be concluded within 20 years.

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Editor: Michael Lawton

Este imposibil ca oricui citeste stirea de mai sus sa nu i se para INCREDIBILA.

Stirea ne dovedeste inca o data ca tenacitatea si consecventa sunt doua calitati esentiale pentru reusita.

Dupa aproape 90 de ani, germanii continua sa plateasca reparatii de razboi si continua sa o faca cu demnitate.

Si-au asumat istoria cu bunele si cu relele ei. Sunt tenaci pentru ca reusesc cu obstinatie sa dovedeasca lumii intregi ca FIBRA lor este sanatoasa si puternica si poate renaste din cenusa atator conflicte devastatoare. Sunt tenaci pentru ca au reusit ca in ciuda umilintelor si privatiunilor indurate dupa cele doua Razboaie mondiale sa se ridice.

Sunt consecventi pentru ca au stiut sa-si respecte obligatiile. Mai mult, tot ca dovada a consecventei, au vrut si au reusit permanent sa domine Europa.

Ei inca platesc pentru o greseala veche de 90 de ani, dar au mers INAINTE.

Noi inca platim pentru greseli mult mai apropiate, dar nu mergem INAINTE, ci ne intoarcem pentru a le repeta. De ce? Pentru ca uitam.

Si nu-i asa, UITAREA poate fi considerata un semn de SLABICIUNE.

Germany still paying First World War reparations | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 03.12.2009

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