After World War II, both the Federal Republic and the Democratic Republic of Germany were obliged to pay war reparations to the Allied governments, according to the Potsdam Conference. Italian, Romani
Excerpt Akte R 27320, page 114 (political archive of the German Federal Foreign Office)
Following their defeat in World War I, the Central Powers agreed to pay war reparations to the Allied Powers. Each defeated power was required to make payments in either cash or kind. Because of the f
Avocourt, 1918, one of the many destroyed French villages where reconstruction would be funded by reparations.
Demonstration against the Treaty of Versailles, in front of the Reichstag.
Trains loaded with machinery deliver their cargo in 1920 as reparation payment in kind.
Protests by gymnasts from the Ruhr at the 1923 Munich Gymnastics Festival. The sign on the left reads "The Ruhr remains German". The right placard reads "We never want to be vassals".