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Originally Posted by pornlaw
I find it interesting that Germany wouldn't be sitting where they are now if Greece as well as the UK and the U.S. had not nearly wiped out its debt after WW2. Seems like Merkel & Germany have forgotten from whence they came.
And it seems like the rest of Europe has forgotten how Germany became a Nazi menace after WWI when the bankers refused to wipe out their war debt. If the banks have wiped that debt clean it's unlikely that Hilter and Co. would have ever come to power.
Those that forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
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That WWI stuff was much more than about bankers. Germany had to pay for western allies compensation about the war (reparation payments). France even occupied Ruhr valley after Germany failed to pay these compensations in time/ sufficiently.