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The Reparation Commission, also Inter-Allied Reparation Commission (sometimes "Reparations Commission"), was established by the Treaty of Versailles to determine the level of World War I reparations which Germany should pay the victorious Allies. [1]
Making one party pay a war indemnity is a common practice with a long history. Rome imposed large indemnities on Carthage after the First (Treaty of Lutatius, 241 BC) and Second Punic Wars. [2] There was also the case of 230 million silver taels in reparations imposed on defeated China after the First Sino-Japanese War led Japan to a similar ...
The Treaty of Versailles (signed in 1919) and the 1921 London Schedule of Payments required the Central Powers to pay 132 billion gold marks (US$33 billion at the time which is US$1052 billion in 2024 [2]) in reparations to cover civilian damage caused during the war.
Italian reparation payments amounted to about 366 million USD and were paid to the Soviet Union, as well as Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, and Ethiopia. Finland, Romania and Bulgaria had to pay reparations worth about 300 million USD each, mostly paid in natural goods. Bulgaria had to pay reparations worth about 70 million USD.
The treaty required Germany to disarm, make territorial concessions, extradite alleged war criminals, agree to Kaiser Wilhelm being put on trial, recognise the independence of states whose territory had previously been part of the German Empire, and pay reparations to the Entente powers. The most critical and controversial provision in the ...
The Treaty of Lausanne obliged the Weimar Republic to make a final payment of three billion gold marks, payable in five-percent bonds to the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. The bonds were redeemable only after a period of three years – thus providing a 3-year suspension of payments – with the interest income ...
The resulting Dawes Plan covered payment amounts and timing, sources of revenue, loans to Germany, currency stabilization and ending the Ruhr occupation: Reparations payments began at one billion Reichsmarks the first year, increasing annually to two and a half billion after five years. No total sum was set. [9]
Treaty with the Ottawa of Blanchard's Fork and Roche de Boeuf: 12 Stat. 1237: 1862: June 28: Treaty with the Kickapoo: 13 Stat. 623: 1863: March 11: Treaty with the Chippewa of the Mississippi and the Pillager and Lake Winnibigoshish Bands: 12 Stat. 1249: 1863: June 9: Treaty with the Nez Perce: 14 Stat. 647: Nez Perce: 1863: Treaty with the ...