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Much to its credit, the United States eschewed retribution and reparations after World War II.
But that year, the party was able to reestablish itself by campaigning in a fiercely fought referendum over post-World War I reparations.
In the 1920’s and the 1930’s, representatives of European states devoted countless meetings to resolving them (at the time, mainly German reparations).
The Dawes Plan of 1924 sought to stagger Germany’s reparations payments for World War I.
The Young Plan of 1929 reduced the sum that Germany owed in reparations and gave the country much more time to pay.
French insistence on harsh reparations payments after World War I clearly prepared the ground for the rise of Hitler.
For example, though the reparations demanded by the victors of World War I were certainly burdensome, by 1932 it had become clear that they would never be paid.
Among Japanese nationalist groups, the narrative is one of frustration with the wartime Allies’ version of history; almost 70 years – and billions of dollars in reparations and foreign assistance – later, Japan would like to move on.
Turkey put forward three conditions: a formal apology, reparations for the families of those killed, and the lifting of the siege of Gaza.
Israel offered “regrets,” rather than a formal apology, and agreed to pay reparations, but refused to lift the Gaza siege.
The peace deal with the FARC will, of course, also carry other costs: reparations for victims, the demobilization and integration of guerrillas into civilian life, and the temporary institutions established to manage the agreement’s implementation.
Of course, Japan did occupy China, committed unimaginable savagery, and has since paid no reparations or apologized in a convincing way.
The results might include reparations and acknowledgements of perpetrators’ guilt.
Owing partly to such resistance, Colombia’s government, according to the International Commission on Human Rights Verification, has so far achieved only 18.5% of the reforms, laws, and promises – from economic reparations and security guarantees to assistance to farmers who agreed to end coca production – stipulated by the peace accord.
In Athens, exasperation has reached new heights, and the bitterness of the disputes has started to echo dangerously the rabid disputes over German reparations of the 1920’s.
And, it will mean making reparations to those who suffered most, including Yusuf Ruzimuradov and Muhammad Bekjanov, two of the world’s longest-imprisoned journalists.
Reparations would help as well.
Giving BIPOC communities priority access to a COVID-19 vaccine must not be confused with reparations for slavery and colonialism.
Whereas the treaty imposed huge reparations on Germany, today’s Germany has taken the lead in imposing a large debt obligation on its fellow eurozone member Greece.
In May 1921, the Reparations Commission fixed Germany’s indemnity at $33 billion.
America was exceptional in that, despite its stature at the end of World War II, it chose to build a world order through multilateralism and global institutions, rather than pursuing reparations and unilateralism.
Yet today, Japanese-South Korean relations have grown tense once again over the issue of wartime reparations.
More recently, President George H.W. Bush apologized and issued reparations, on behalf of the country, to Japanese-Americans who had been interned during World War II on the basis of their ethnicity.
Some US politicians have even called for China to pay reparations as a result.
Why is it that every dispute – whether over intellectual property (IP), immigration, environmental damage, or war reparations – now produces new threats to trade?
Among the smears hurled at Trzaskowski was that he would “sexualize children” (owing to his affiliations with Poland’s LGBT movement) and slash social benefits in order to pay Jews reparations for World War II.
The second falsehood that the fact-checkers pointed out concerned the question of whether China should pay reparations for causing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mad with rage and misery, M. de Croisenois insisted upon reparations so drastic that the millionaire preferred a duel.
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