Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic - The Politics of Reparations

Originally published in 1971. This book 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.

About the author

David Felix was a Professor at the City University of New York.

Summary

In the end all nations suffered, including the United States.

Product details

• Authors: David Felix
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781421435510
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-3551-0
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Europäische Geschichte