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Neilster -> RE: OT - WWII quiz (11/9/2008 1:38:38 AM)
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ORIGINAL: brian brian
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ORIGINAL: Stavka_lite
I hit the post button to soon... If is the latter then I will "guess" Finland
that is the country I had in mind. only countries that lose in war pay reparations; although the Russians took a lot of stuff out of their parts of Eastern Europe I think even they eventually had to back off from their original ideas as they had to set up the satellite regimes, and didn't go so far as to set up an official reparations system. I think the West had hoped for the same from their parts of what became West Germany, but they too waived these by the time of the Marshall Plan.
From Wikipedia...
Contrary to popular belief, the Marshall Plan, which was extended to also include Western Germany after it was realized that the suppression of the Western German economy was holding back the recovery of the rest of Europe, was not the main force behind the Wirtschaftswunder. Had that been the case, other countries such as Great Britain and France (which both received higher economic assistance from the Marshal plan than Germany) should have experienced the same phenomenon. In fact, the amount of monetary aid (which was in the form of loans) received by Germany through the Marshall Plan (about $1.4 billion in total) was far overshadowed by the amount the Germans had to pay back as war reparations and by the charges the Allies made on the Germans for the ongoing cost of occupation (about $2.4 billion per year)[87]. In 1953 it was decided that Germany was to repay $1.1 billion of the aid it had received. The last repayment was made in June 1971.
Cheers, Neilster
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