>>Germany paid only a fraction of it back. Where did you get the "30 times" figure?
I don't recall. It dates from a distant past when I chose to study such things. Perhaps you can tell me where you got your claim that reparations were light (they ruined Germany's economy at least once and had to be reduced 3 times).
>>After the inflation was dealt with, they bounced back within less than 20 years to become Europe's most powerful economy and the most powerful military.
Not sure of your point. You do know that Germany had stopped paying reparations 2 years before Hitler became Chancellor?
>>Exactly the opposite. They made up the garbage about a jewish conspiracy so I am less likely to believe the rest.
It is possible to perceive what motivates others to achieve great and terrible things, without having to "believe" it.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
