Germany will finally clear its First World War debt by repaying nearly \u00a360million this weekend.<\/p>\n
The \u00a322billion reparations were set by the Allied victors \u2013 mostly Britain, France and America \u2013 as compensation and punishment for the 1914-18 war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Germany will finally clear its First World War debt by repaying nearly \u00a360million this weekend.<\/p>\n
The \u00a322billion reparations were set by the Allied victors \u2013 mostly Britain, France and America \u2013 as compensation and punishment for the 1914-18 war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1464,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/why-has-germany-taken-so-long-to-pay-off-its-wwi-debt\/","url_meta":{"origin":1462,"position":0},"title":"Why has Germany taken so long to pay off its WWI debt?","author":"russeltarr","date":"October 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Germany is finally paying off World War I reparations, with the last 70 million euro (\u00a360m) payment drawing the debt to a close.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3192,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/the-arms-race-and-the-role-of-kaiser-wilhelm-ii\/","url_meta":{"origin":1462,"position":1},"title":"The Arms Race and the Role of Kaiser Wilhelm II","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"December 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Arms Race This worksheet covers both the arms race on land (Russia and France v. 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