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After World War II ended, the main four Allied powers – Great Britain, The United States, France, and the Soviet Union – jointly occupied Germany, with the Allied occupation officially ending in the 1950s. During this time, Germany was held accountable for the Allied occupation's expenses, amounting to over several billion dollars. [21]
War reparations made pursuant to the San Francisco Peace Treaty with Japan (1951) include: reparations amounting to US$550 million (198 billion yen 1956) were made to the Philippines, and US$39 million (14.04 billion yen 1959) to South Vietnam; payment to the International Committee of the Red Cross to compensate prisoners of war (POW) of 4.5 ...
The Bureau of Reparations during the Presidium of the Council of Ministers estimated the total cost of material losses amounted after the end of World War II that took place between 1939 and 1945. Conclusively, the material losses and destruction was valued at 258 billion prewar zlotys, which amount to 50 billion US Dollars (1939 rate). [9]
Reparations were paid to Yugoslavia in the aftermath of World War II.The State Reparations Commission of the Yugoslav Government estimated the total war damages inflicted upon Yugoslavia in World War II at approximately US$47 billion (1938 values: $1 = 44 Yugoslav dinars; Germany – 36 billion, Italy – 10 billion, Hungary – 542 million, Bulgaria – 650 million).
The most famous reparations program in the world was undertaken in the 1950s by Germany to compensate the relatives of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.
An official who spent 4 decades at the Fed says $2 trillion in annual reparations is the least we can do to fix systemic racism: ‘I just don’t want to wait for another generation’
(Bulgaria was part of the Axis but did not declare war on the Soviet Union). In the cases of Romania and Hungary, the reparation terms as set forth in their armistices were relatively high and were not revised. War reparations at 1938 prices, in United States dollar amounts: $360,000,000 (equivalent to $7,792,000,000 in 2023) from Italy:
The cost of war is so great that compromise should not be a dirty word. Editorial. January 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM (Dave Brown) The cost of the conflict between Israel and Hamas has been monstrous and ...