Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic The Politics of Reparations

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Felix, David, 1921-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Reparations.

World War, 1914-1918.

Rathenau, Walther, 1867-1922.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 210 p.) port.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press 2019

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1971]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

A Reparation Chronology

Introduction: The Background of Reparations

I. To Fulfill: The Reparation Issue Crystallizes

II. The Economics of Reparations

III. The Minister of Reconstruction

IV. Reparations: Germany and France

V. Germany: The Politics of Reparations

VI. Reparations: Germany and Great Britain

VII. The Anti-Conference

VIII. Dealing with the Reparation Commission

IX. Tendency to Acts of Violence

X. Conclusions to the Logic of Reparations and Fulfillment

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 191-205.

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ISBN:

0-8018-1175-9

1-4214-3551-9

OCLC:

1133214183