>>>Germany paid only a fraction of it back. Where did you get the "30 times" figure?
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>>True. But 132 billion marks were due. Compare that to 5 billion francs due Germany from France after the 1980 war. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_reparations)
>
>Do you know the exchange rate back then?
Not off the top of my head, no.
Also, read "1870", not "1980". My bad.
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