Not over until it's over...
Friday, October 1st, 2010 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanPootling about online, I wandered onto Facebork to see if it was my turn in the Scrabble game I’m playing.
It wasn’t.
What I did find, however, was this link to the Daily Telegraph, posted by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
binidj.
It seems that sometime on Sunday, 3 October 2010, we can finally draw a line under the First World War a mere 92 years after the guns fell silent.
Germany was forced to pay the reparations at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as compensation to the war-ravaged nations of Belgium and France and to pay the Allies some of the costs of waging what was then the bloodiest conflict in history, leaving nearly ten million soldiers dead.
The final payment of £59.5 million, writes off the crippling debt that was the price for one world war and which laid the foundations for another. The debt had been scaled down many times and would have been paid off many years ago, but no repayments were made between Hitler rising to power in 1933 and reunification in 1990.
From Sunday, The Great War really will belong in the history books.
It wasn’t.
What I did find, however, was this link to the Daily Telegraph, posted by
binidj.It seems that sometime on Sunday, 3 October 2010, we can finally draw a line under the First World War a mere 92 years after the guns fell silent.
Germany was forced to pay the reparations at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as compensation to the war-ravaged nations of Belgium and France and to pay the Allies some of the costs of waging what was then the bloodiest conflict in history, leaving nearly ten million soldiers dead.
The final payment of £59.5 million, writes off the crippling debt that was the price for one world war and which laid the foundations for another. The debt had been scaled down many times and would have been paid off many years ago, but no repayments were made between Hitler rising to power in 1933 and reunification in 1990.
From Sunday, The Great War really will belong in the history books.
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Date: 2010-10-01 10:51 am (UTC)Maybe, sometime in the next millenium, there will be a WWII peace treaty too.
Maybe not.