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Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic: The Politics of Reparations

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David Felix
2019
Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Originally published in 1971. Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic examines reparations in Germany following the First World War. Financial reparation was the most difficult and dangerous of the conditions imposed upon Germany by the Versailles Treaty. The amount of reparations - three times the country's annual income - was beyond Germany's capacity to pay. The United States, by insisting on the payment of Allied war debts, forced the Allies in turn to insist on reparations. Postwar polemics concentrated on German aggression and war crimes, but the real issue was the damage done to the world's economic mechanism. In the end all nations suffered, including the United States.

Table of Contents

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Cover

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Half Title

pp. i

Frontispiece

pp. ii

Title Page

pp. iii

Dedication

pp. iv

Copyright

pp. iv

Contents

pp. v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp. vii-viii

Abbreviations

pp. ix

A Reparation Chronology

pp. x-xii

Introduction: The Background of Reparations

pp. 1-7

I. To Fulfill: The Reparation Issue Crystallizes

pp. 8-24

II. The Economics of Reparations

pp. 25-40

III. The Minister of Reconstruction

pp. 41-65

IV. Reparations: Germany and France

pp. 67-79

V. Germany: The Politics of Reparations

pp. 80-104

VI. Reparations: Germany and Great Britain

pp. 105-125

VII. The Anti-Conference

pp. 127-146

VIII. Dealing with the Reparation Commission

pp. 147-158

IX. Tendency to Acts of Violence

pp. 159-174

X. Conclusions to the Logic of Reparations and Fulfillment

pp. 175-190

Bibliography

pp. 191-205

Index

pp. 206-210
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