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IlluminatiRex t1_ja3efgb wrote

> The reparations Germany had to pay as stated in the treaty of Versailles was a infeasible amount of money

The treaty didn't stipulate any amounts to be paid, that was from a later commission.

The amounts determined weren't onerous, and instead based on Germany's capacity to pay. A lot of it was to be paid in in-kind goods for, surprise, literally destroying the industry of Belgium and North Eastern France, looting, etc...

Scholars today no longer view the treaty as having been "onerous" or that the reparations were "infeasible". Sally Marks was one of the first historians to make those arguments, and it has been strengthened by the work of later writers such as Margaret Macmillan and Adam Tooze.

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FR331ND34TH t1_ja6l8e0 wrote

The deadlines not the amount was the problem. France pushed for unrealistic deadlines that the weihmar republic couldn't keep up even when they printed so much money that ruined their economy.

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