[mkleesma]

Interesting fact - I had no idea Germany was still paying.

[martin_fierro]

This calls for a beer.

[IrishCatholic]

It just means that they start a new armament program on Monday.

[RetroSexual]

I heard this on the radio yesterday, and had two questions in my mind.

1) What happened to the debt when Germany split in half? Did the treaty cover this issue somehow? And, related:

2) Were they required to pay reparations after WWII, or was there so little left of the nation that they weren’t even requested? After all, the US virtually rebuilt Germany’s neighbors.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean
But that couldn’t happen again
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they’ve hardly bothered us since then

— Tom Lehrer

[yldstrk]

Knew nothing about this.

[Mercat]

It came up at lunch last week that there was this Guatemalan experiment in the late 40s, which we all agreed was evil and it was evil of the US to be involved. My uber lib office mate was momentarily disturbed by the realization that this was during either the FDR or Truman administrations but then started ranting about how “this country is as bad as Nazi Germany.” Notice the present tense. I said that human beings are flawed and we’re all sinners but that I thought it was painting with a very broad brush to say that this country is as bad as Nazi Germany. He just kept repeating it so I left the lunch room. sigh. So I do avoid the libs in my office. Its bound to get worse during the next month.

Its Respect Life Sunday, on another note, and my priest gave a homily on the subject. First time since the 70s I have heard a priest say from the pulpit that those using artificial contraception should not present themselves for Communion. I wanted to clap and cheer out loud.

[NavyCanDo]

“Interesting fact - I had no idea Germany was still paying.”

Same goes with most of us. Wonder if any such demands were put on them and Japan for WWII. Doubt it. And at the payback rate, they would be reading the news of the final WWII payment on a Starship exploring the final frontier many centuries from now.

[NavyCanDo]

My grandfather was a Sergeant in the army at the beginning of the war. He missed being sent overseas with the rest of them when on a wood cutting detail at a Texas Army camp, a private put an ax trough his boot splitting his big toe in half.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Whew, I'm glad we finally got that paid off!

[linuxnut]

Didn’t we just stop paying the tax that was used to pay for the Spanish-American war a few years ago?

[napscoordinator]

Very interesting. Now they have to pay off World War II....that SHOULD cost a fortune.