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Reparations

Germany · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1918–1919Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1918

Friedrich Ebert1918

Warfare / World War, 1st

At the conclusion of World War I, Germany reluctantly agrees to pay unspecified reparations in the armistice agreement of November 1918

1919

Mathias Erzberger28 June 1919

Versailles · Warfare / World War, 1st

At Versailles Germany sign a Treaty that assigns full responsibility for causing the conflict (Article 231, the "war guilt clause") and calls for the creation of an international reparations commission to determine the amount due to the Allies

Names involved

Friedrich EbertMathias Erzberger

Provenance

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