GreenTiger GreenTiger:
If Germany were pay war reparations it would go a long way towards forgiveness.
They did. And they only finished making payments a few years ago.
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After World War II, according to the Potsdam conference held between July 17 and August 2, 1945, Germany was to pay the Allies US$23 billion mainly in machinery and manufacturing plants. Reparations to the Soviet Union stopped in 1953. Large numbers of factories were dismantled or destroyed. Dismantling in the west stopped in 1950.