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- Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic: The Politics of Reparations
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Funder: Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
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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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- Half Title
- p. i
- Frontispiece
- p. ii
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Dedication
- p. iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Abbreviations
- p. ix
- A Reparation Chronology
- pp. x-xii
- 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
- Bibliography
- pp. 191-205
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421435534
Related ISBN(s)
9780801811753, 9781421435510, 9781421435527
MARC Record
OCLC
1133214183
Pages
226
Launched on MUSE
2020-01-10
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND