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World War II reparations. After World War II, both the Federal Republic and Democratic Republic of Germany were obliged to pay war reparations to the Allied governments, according to the Potsdam Conference. Other Axis nations were obliged to pay war reparations according to the Paris Peace Treaties, 1947. Austria was not included in any of ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dutch annexation of German territories post Second World War. At the end of World War II, plans were made in the Netherlands to annex German territory as compensation for the damages caused by the war. In October 1945, the Dutch state asked Germany for 25 billion guilders in reparations.
[10] 1980: The National Coalition for Redress/Reparations is established. July 31, 1980: President Carter approves the creation of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. July to December 1981: The CWRIC holds eleven hearings in ten U.S. cities. More than 750 provide personal testimony of their confinement during World ...
The CARICOM reparations plan, for example, shares several points with a 10-point reparations proposal put forward by the U.S.-based National African-American Reparations Commission, and the two ...
150,000–246,000. On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 ...
The Caribbean Community has a 10-point reparation plan, which among other demands calls for debt cancellation, and the African Union is developing a common position on the issue, with Ghana ...
War reparations are compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other. They are intended to cover damage or injury inflicted during a war. War reparations can take the form of hard currency, precious metals, natural resources, industrial assets, or intellectual properties. [1] Loss of territory in a peace settlement is usually ...
The "Big Three": Attlee, Truman, Stalin. The Potsdam Agreement (German: Potsdamer Abkommen) was the agreement among three of the Allies of World War II: the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union after the war ended in Europe on 1 August 1945 and it was published the next day. A product of the Potsdam Conference, it concerned ...