[Angelino97]

Cumulative German aid to Israel and reparations comes to under $90b. In the 1930s, it seized $16b Reichsmarks ($6b) in assets from Jews in Germany and territories conquered in Europe. That $6b is $180b today, adjusted for inflation.

Before you feel short-changed, consider the following:

1. The leaders and supporters of Communism in the 20th century were disproportionately Jewish.

2. Communism stole exponentially more from its victims worldwide than did the Nazis (and murdered a whole lot more people).

3. Reparations to victims of Communism have been practically nothing. And practically none of the perpetrators have ever been brought to justice (though many were consumed by their own revolution).

[Zhang Fei]

[1. The leaders and supporters of Communism in the 20th century were disproportionately Jewish.

2. Communism stole exponentially more from its victims worldwide than did the Nazis (and murdered a whole lot more people).

3. Reparations to victims of Communism have been practically nothing. And practically none of the perpetrators have ever been brought to justice (though many were consumed by their own revolution).]

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Whatever was stolen, it wasn’t stolen from Germans. And Communism, like the Christian heresy it was and the absolute monarchies it aped, always gave its opponents the option of conversion. The German people gave Jews one option - death. That is what separated German atrocity from all others - where others wanted to conquer new lands and turn their acquired populations into compliant subjects, Germans wanted to kill the world and resettle it with Germans.

Ultimately, Germany got less than it deserved at war’s end. It killed over 30m, lost 8m in a war of extermination it began. Reciprocity would have seen it erased from the earth, processed as Jews were at Treblinka, Sobibor, et al.

[Zhang Fei]

[1. The leaders and supporters of Communism in the 20th century were disproportionately Jewish.

2. Communism stole exponentially more from its victims worldwide than did the Nazis (and murdered a whole lot more people).

3. Reparations to victims of Communism have been practically nothing. And practically none of the perpetrators have ever been brought to justice (though many were consumed by their own revolution).]

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Note also that the material beneficiaries, for a time, of Communist expropriation were the populations of Communist countries themselves. Whereas the wealth Germany stole from Jews benefited Germans.

Reparations have always been a part of peace settlements. The powerful German American lobby, strong enough to throttle war preparations as Germany grew stronger and increasingly belligerent, helped Germany win the peace by vetoing any attempt at a punitive peace. As a result, Germany paid a tiny fraction of what it should have, for the atrocities it brought forth. As compensation to the countries razed by Germany, the US created the Marshall Plan and threw its markets wide open, paving the way for the eventual collapse of many iconic American brands.

It’s not some cosmic rule that Germany paid next to nothing, but American insistence. The hordes of German immigrants who crossed the Atlantic a century prior paid off for Berlin.