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user-inactivated · 3468 days ago · link · · parent · post: Piketty: Germany has no standing to lecture other nations on debt.
Am I wrong in remembering that part of the reason Germany went out of control and Hitler came to power was due largely in part to the overwhelming burden of post WWI Wartime Reparations? The international community decided to work with both Germany (West Germany?) and Japan after WWII to prevent this kind of thing from happening again. So technically, weren't they forgiven and given a free pass?