German Reparations, 1919 - 1932 A Historical Survey

by Gomes, Leonard

• ISBN13: 9780230238381
• ISBN10: 0230238386
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book provides a historical narrative to tell the story of interwar German reparations the debates, controversies and diplomacy surrounding the issue from the 1919 Paris peace conference to the abandonment of reparations at the Lausanne Conference in 1932.

Author Biography

Leonard Gomes is a retired academic; he previously was a Reader in International Economics. Dr Gomes taught on a variety of economics courses at undergraduate and graduate levels, specialising in international economics. His main area of research lies in international economics and history of economic thought.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Reparations and the Legacy of War	p. 3
Synopsis - the reparations saga in a nutshell	p. 3
Legacy of the Great War	p. 4
What really happened at Paris	p. 22
The Versailles settlement and the 'German problem'	p. 31
Summits on Sums	p. 47
La politique des casinos	p. 47
The London Schedule of Payments	p. 65
Significance of the figures	p. 68
Feasibility of the London Schedule	p. 71
Fulfilment Crises and Allied Disunity	p. 84
A fraudulent bankruptcy?	p. 84
Poincaré and 'the lure of the Ruhr'	p. 104
The Ruhr occupation	p. 117
From Dawes to Young	p. 141
The Dawes Plan	p. 141
Germany under Dawes: Reparations on credit	p. 157
The Young Plan	p. 166
The End of Reparations (and After)	p. 192
Weimar's faltering economy and the slump	p. 192
Germany's banking crisis and the end of reparations	p. 203
An unresolved issue: Allied war debts	p. 212
The Nazi debt default and post-war redemption	p. 217
Appendix: Keynes, the Transfer Problem and German Reparations	p. 228
The transfer problem: The Keynes-Ohlin debate	p. 228
Keynes's anti-reparations campaign	p. 233
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 251
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