Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic : the politics of reparations

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Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic : the politics of reparations

David Felix

Johns Hopkins Press, c1971

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index

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Originally published in 1971. Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic examines reparations in Germany following the First World War. Financial reparation was the most difficult and dangerous of the conditions imposed upon Germany by the Versailles Treaty. The amount of reparations - three times the country's annual income - was beyond Germany's capacity to pay. The United States, by insisting on the payment of Allied war debts, forced the Allies in turn to insist on reparations. Postwar polemics concentrated on German aggression and war crimes, but the real issue was the damage done to the world's economic mechanism. In the end all nations suffered, including the United States.

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Acknowledgments Abbreviations A Reparation Chronology Introduction. The Background of Reparations Chapter 1. To Fulfill: The Reparation Issue Crystallizes Chapter 2. The Economics of Reparations Chapter 3. The Minister of Reconstruction Chapter 4. Reparations: Germany and France Chapter 5. Germany: The Politics of Reparations Chapter 6. Reparations: Germany and Great Britain Chapter 7. The Anti-Conference Chapter 8. Dealing with the Reparation Commission Chapter 9. Tendency to Acts of Violence Chapter 10. Conclusions to the Logic of Reparations and Fulfillment Bibliography Index

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