World War 1 Officially ends next sunday

[CptStern]

no really

he First World War will officially end on Sunday, 92 years after the guns fell silent, when Germany pays off the last chunk of reparations imposed on it by the Allies.

"On Sunday the last bill is due and the First World War finally, financially at least, terminates for Germany," said Bild, the country's biggest selling newspaper.

so WW2 should be officially over by 2050 ..give or take a few decades

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor.../8029948/First-World-War-officially-ends.html

 

[Stormy]

Wow, that's amazing, interesting stuff!

 

[Mr Stabby]

WW1 wasn't Germany's fault.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Yet they were still paying...in cold hard cash.

 

[YROC]

 

[Vegeta897]

^ I don't get it.

 

[YROC]

a war in a war

I thought it would be easy to understand. ;(

 

[Mr. Djees]

so WW2 should be officially over by 2050 ..give or take a few decades

WW2 ended in 1991.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_with_Respect_to_Germany

 

[Raziaar]

Suck on that Wilhelm!

WW2 ended in 1991.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_with_Respect_to_Germany

First in - First out

 

[Vegeta897]

a war in a war

I thought it would be easy to understand. ;(

Spoiler

 

[Naph]

^ I don't get it.

 

[YROC]

You wouldn't because you're not in our friendship circle.

 

[Naph]

You wouldn't because you're not in our friendship circle.

This is how I wish to keep it.

 

[VirusType2]

I don't get a single thing in this thread.

 

[Mogi67]

 

[Bad^Hat]

Man, even their christmas cards are pretentious. Figures.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Also, do the reparations account for inflation. Oh shit here comes the fourth reich!

 

[sinkoman]

I wonder how the payments for this sort of thing work. Where is the account that this money gets dumped into? Who owns it? How does it get transfered into said account? Is there actually some goon in Germany who writes out checks for this sort of thing? Who would such a check get written to anyways? What happens if payments are made late?

I mean, i'm sure it's not as simple as a mortgage :/

EDIT: So I just read the article...

 

[Solaris]

WW1 wasn't Germany's fault.

This is ludicrous. Germany declared war on Russia and France. No-one forced it to do either, it didn't have to promise to back up A.H. either.

Granted, Britian wasn't a moral good, I think perhaps the world would be better off had Germany won, but that's a different issue.

 

[Eejit]

This is ludicrous. Germany declared war on Russia and France. No-one forced it to do either, it didn't have to promise to back up A.H. either.

Granted, Britian wasn't a moral good, I think perhaps the world would be better off had Germany won, but that's a different issue.

Spoiler

 

[Mr Stabby]

This is ludicrous. Germany declared war on Russia and France. No-one forced it to do either, it didn't have to promise to back up A.H. either.

Granted, Britian wasn't a moral good,

Russia mobilized before Germany. As an ally of Austria, Germany could expect to be attacked, as could France as an ally of Russia.

If the USSR attacked the USA as a member of NATO, the UK could expect to be attacked and would be justified in attacking the USSR.

All the European powers were uncomprimising jingoists, so Germany is partially to blame, but no more than any other power. It was a collective **** up, and one of the most pointless, senseless wars in history.

In my view WW1 was this guy's fault. The war was started over Austrian control of Bosnia.

I think perhaps the world would be better off had Germany won, but that's a different issue.

I think you might be right about that.

 

[Unfocused]

I wonder how the payments for this sort of thing work. Where is the account that this money gets dumped into? Who owns it? How does it get transfered into said account? Is there actually some goon in Germany who writes out checks for this sort of thing? Who would such a check get written to anyways? What happens if payments are made late?

I mean, i'm sure it's not as simple as a mortgage :/

EDIT: So I just read the article...

They're using PayPal.

 

[Solaris]

Russia mobilized before Germany. As an ally of Austria, Germany could expect to be attacked, as could France as an ally of Russia.

If the USSR attacked the USA as a member of NATO, the UK could expect to be attacked and would be justified in attacking the USSR.

All the European powers were uncomprimising jingoists, so Germany is partially to blame, but no more than any other power. It was a collective **** up, and one of the most pointless, senseless wars in history.

In my view WW1 was



I think you might be right about that.

I disagree, Germany wanted to break out of encirclement and become a major world power, thats why it gave A/H the green card to attack serbia.

 

[Mr Stabby]

Germany already was a major world power, it had the 2nd largest economy and the strongest army in the world. As for Germany's colonial ambitions, they had nothing to do with going to war with Russia. Germany's militarism was much tamer than Britains, Britain was the country that launched a war of aggression in 1900 against the Boer republics.

The Germans, believed that Russia was in no position to fight Austria over Serbia (which Russia wasn't, as evidence by their terrible war time performence), but the hawks in the Russian court pressured the short-sighted incompetant Tsar into supporting Serbia.

WW1's origins are more complex than you think. WW1 was definetly more Serbia, Austria and Russia faults than it was Germany's. The war was started over Bosnia, which had nothing to do with Germany. Not that Germany was by any means perfect, it could have pressured Austria to back down and didn't, but the war was not started just because Germany wanted a fight.

 

[Dynasty]

Vot evar you do, dont mention za vor!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0

 

[Evo]

Call me stupid, but how would we have been better off if Germany had won WW1?

 

[Mr Stabby]

German aristocracy didn't like Hitler.

 

[Solaris]

Call me stupid, but how would we have been better off if Germany had won WW1?

I'm not saying Britain personally would have but countries Britain occupied and Butchered like Ireland and India would have achieved freedom far earlier.

 

[Eejit]

Call me stupid, but how would we have been better off if Germany had won WW1?

The WW1 settlement was the root of the Nazi's rise to power. Without them either there wouldn't have been a WW2 (unlikely) or it would at least have been unlikely to involve such genocide.

 

[Dynasty]

Its a tough one, though I will always believe the war would have gone very, very much in favour of the Nazis if Britain hadnt taken a stand for as long as we did. And Russia of course.

 

[Mr Stabby]

Wrong war.

 

[Solaris]

Its a tough one, though I will always believe the war would have gone very, very much in favour of the Nazis if Britain hadnt taken a stand for as long as we did. And Russia of course.

So you're saying, if the Nazi's largest enemy (Russia) as well as at one point their only enemy (Britain) both surrendered the war would have 'gone in the Nazis favour'.

Well yes, obviously, it's a nonsensical statement, who else could they have fought?

 

[Evo]

The WW1 settlement was the root of the Nazi's rise to power. Without them either there wouldn't have been a WW2 (unlikely) or it would at least have been unlikely to involve such genocide.

Yeah I got that, was more interested in hearing what Solaris said about Ireland/India gaining independence, never thought of that.

Versailles was a mess of a treaty really, shouldn't have happened like it did.