The Allies finally agreed for German reparations to be paid in the following forms: Dismantling of the German industry. Transferring all manufacturing equipment, machinery and machine tools to the Allies. Transferring all railroad cars, locomotives and ships to the Allies.
The Treaty of Versailles Punished Defeated Germany With These Provisions. Some disarmed the German military, while others stripped the defeated nation of territory, population and economic resources, and forced it to admit responsibility for the war and agree to pay reparations.
In total, the Allies took about $413 million worth of reparations (both in money and in goods) from their occupation zones. In 1952, the London Agreement on German External Debts assessed the final reparation figure at $3 billion. Germany has yet to pay off its debts for World War II.
In total, courts across Europe sentenced approximately 100,000 Germans and Austrians for their crimes in wartime. On top of this, Soviet courts convicted approximately 26,000 Germans and Austrians for their actions during the Third Reich.
The Marshall Plan, named after Secretary of State, George Marshall, was a $15 billion-dollar economic plan to help with the reconstruction of Germany and Europe after WWII. The Deutsche Mark became the German currency, replacing the currency of the occupation. German industry was rebuilt.
The SAS's aggressive patrolling, sabotage attacks and the number of fire fights they had engaged in, led the Germans to believe they were up against a far larger force than there actually was.
On 31 December 2006, Britain made a final payments of about $83m (£45.5m) to the US and about $23.6m to Canada. By the end of World War II Britain had amassed an immense debt of £21 billion.
In total, ICHEIC made $306 million in payments to Holocaust survivors and their heirs. Humanitarian payments were also made to claimants in cases where no policies could be found.
The Bundeswehr is divided into a military part (armed forces or Streitkräfte) and a civil part. The military part consists of the four armed forces: German Army, German Navy, German Air Force and Cyber and Information Domain Service, which are supported by the Bundeswehr Support Area.
French President George Clemenceau wanted Germany to be severely punished. He wanted Germany to be weakened so they would not be able to pose any threat to France in the future. The two countries had a history of conflict and bordered each other.
World War II is generally considered to have begun on 1 September 1939, when Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland, after which the United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany.
The Allied demands were further outlined during the Potsdam Conference. Reparations were to be directly paid to the four victor powers (France, United Kingdom, United States, and the Soviet Union); for the countries in the Soviet sphere of influence, the Soviet Union would determine its distribution.
The capital sum of France's so-called “war debt” to Great Britain, as finally adjusted, was £445,218,387. The total sum of French obligations held by Great Britain, however, was increased £208,000,000 by the addition of interest making the total covered by the agreement £653,127,900.
German reparation payments total some 82 billion euro (2022). Around 1.44 billion euro is paid from the federal budget each year for pension and care costs of victims of Nazi persecution, many of whom live in Israel (2022 figures).
The German army was restricted to 100,000 men; the general staff was eliminated; the manufacture of armoured cars, tanks, submarines, airplanes, and poison gas was forbidden; and only a small number of specified factories could make weapons or munitions.
Nearly half (49 percent) of all Jewish Holocaust survivors live in Israel, with an additional 18 percent in North America and 18 percent in Western Europe. At the time of publication, the median age of survivors is 86; ages range from 77 years to over 100, with birthdates reaching back as far as 1912.
Some of the items were returned to Holocaust survivors in the 1950s and 1960s, if they came forward and actively tried to retrieve their stolen possessions. But many former owners were murdered in the Holocaust or, if they succeeded to flee from the Nazis, had ended up in far-flung corners of the globe.
If there had been no lend-lease, then the UK would have lost the war. In 1941-2 we started to lose shipping to U boats faster than we could build them so we would eventually have brought to starvation without the US Liberty ships. Our tank production was lower than Germany's and the quality was appalling.
The last payments were made on 29 December 2006 for the sum of about $83m USD (£45.5m) to the United States, and about $23.6m USD (£12m) to Canada; the 29th was chosen as it was the last working day of the year.
The early years. Britain needed rebuilding following the Second World War (1939-1945) and its returning soldiers needed jobs and medical care. Although Britain had won the war, it led to major short-term economic issues, as many ships that transported goods had been sunk.
Erwin Rommel said of the SAS, "this one unit has caused me more harm and damage than any other unit of similar size within Allied forces." And it wasn't just harm and damage in terms of war material destroyed, it was actually much more harm and damage to the morale of his troops because if you can be attacked anywhere ...
Origins of “the Rat Patrol.” It's not “Who Dares Wins”. It was “Who cares who wins!” The SAS in the Desert upset the RAF - they destroyed more German Aircraft than the RAF Did........
