212: 1919 – Germany III

Period US political cartoon expressing the view that Allied reparations demands were excessive.

If people know only one thing about the Treaty of Versailles, they know that it imposed heavy reparations payments on Germany.

In this episode, we look at why the Allies made these demands and whether they were as big a burden as the German government made them out to be.

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Intermezzo No. 2
Composed in 1892 by Johannes Brahms. Public domain.
Performed by Markus Staab, and used pursuant to a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
license. Source.

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One thought on “212: 1919 – Germany III

  1. I think this was the episode that I had to pause then rewind. While I stopped laughing. People’s Judean front……

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