Posted on 09/28/2010 6:49:01 AM PDT by C19fan
World War One finally ends for Germany on Sunday - 92 years after the guns fell silent and nearly nine million men lay dead - as it pays off the last chunk of reparations imposed on it by the Allies. A final payment of 69.9 million euros, or £59.3 million, writes off the crippling debt which was the price for one world war - and laid the foundations for another.
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The Western world is still paying a heavy price for World War II, and the horrible Versailles treaty.
I don’t think we fought on the wrong side- just that we shouldn’t have been fighting at all.
I love the history of that place and the views are out of this world.
I’ve got a 5 BILLION Mark postage stamp from Weimar. It’s the highest denomination that they printed. A week later Germany switched to the Renten-Mark, and the stamp became worthless.
That was some high cost letter mailing. Cool.
On late 1923, the postage rate was changing daily, and in the last stages hourly. You could mail a letter in the morning with excess postage, only to have it delivered postage due the same afternoon. It’s my understanding that in the final weeks the Reichspost just gave up and delivered everything, whether it had postage or not.
Right you are Mate
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