Book contents
- When Nations Can’t Default
- Studies in Macroeconomic History
- When Nations Can’t Default
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Data and Replication
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Framework for War Reparations
- 3 Sovereign Debt
- 4 Napoleonic Wars Reparations
- 5 Haiti Indemnity and Sovereign Debt
- 6 Franco-Prussian War Indemnities
- 7 Smaller Nineteenth-Century War Reparations
- 8 German World War I Reparations
- 9 Russian and Bulgarian World War I Reparations
- 10 World War II Reparations to the Soviet Bloc
- 11 World War II Reparations to the Allies
- 12 Iraq Gulf War Reparations
- 13 When Nations Can’t Default
- Appendix: Letter to Creditor Committees
- References
- Index
11 - World War II Reparations to the Allies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2023
- When Nations Can’t Default
- Studies in Macroeconomic History
- When Nations Can’t Default
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Data and Replication
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Framework for War Reparations
- 3 Sovereign Debt
- 4 Napoleonic Wars Reparations
- 5 Haiti Indemnity and Sovereign Debt
- 6 Franco-Prussian War Indemnities
- 7 Smaller Nineteenth-Century War Reparations
- 8 German World War I Reparations
- 9 Russian and Bulgarian World War I Reparations
- 10 World War II Reparations to the Soviet Bloc
- 11 World War II Reparations to the Allies
- 12 Iraq Gulf War Reparations
- 13 When Nations Can’t Default
- Appendix: Letter to Creditor Committees
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 11 looks at the much smaller World War II reparations to the Allies. The Allies had learnt from previous reparations disasters and focused on the de-industrialisation of Germany and Japan. Only small reparations were actually paid, and the transfers were offset by US loans from the Marshall Plan. I show how even though reparations were agreed, they were not necessarily paid, using a case study of German reparations to Denmark.
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- When Nations Can't DefaultA History of War Reparations and Sovereign Debt, pp. 139 - 143Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023