Politics

Reparations

Payments imposed on the defeated powers, above all Germany, to compensate the Allies for war damage. A commission fixed the German total in 1921 at 132 billion gold marks, a sum Germany claimed it could not pay.

Mentioned in

• Chapter II Thirty-Seven Days to War §10 Who Was to Blame?
• Chapter VII The Last Gamble §1 Wilson's Fourteen Points§10 The Eleventh Hour: Compiègne
• Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking Overview§2 Paris, 1919: The Peacemakers and the League§3 The Treaty of Versailles§4 The Other Treaties and the New Map§6 Germany's Troubled Birth: From Weimar to the Putsch§8 Mandates, Sèvres and the Making of Turkey§10 Remembering the Dead, and the Road to 1939