German Reparations, 1919 - 1932: A Historical Survey Book

List of Abbreviations

Introduction 1

1 Reparations and the Legacy of War 3

Synopsis-the reparations saga in a nutshell 3

1.1 Legacy of the Great War 4

1.2 What really happened at Paris 22

1.3 The Versailles settlement and the 'German problem' 31

2 Summits on Sums 47

2.1 La politique des casinos 47

2.2 The London Schedule of Payments 65

2.3 Significance of the figures 68

2.4 Feasibility of the London Schedule 71

3 Fulfilment Crises and Allied Disunity 84

3.1 A fraudulent bankruptcy? 84

3.2 Poincare and 'the lure of the Ruhr' 104

3.3 The Ruhr occupation 117

4 From Dawes to Young 141

4.1 The Dawes Plan 141

4.2 Germany under Dawes: Reparations on credit 157

4.3 The Young Plan 166

5 The End of Reparations (and After) 192

5.1 Weimar's faltering economy and the slump 192

5.2 Germany's banking crisis and the end of reparations 203

5.3 An unresolved issue: Allied war debts 212

5.4 The Nazi debt default and post-war redemption 217

Appendix: Keynes, the Transfer Problem and German Reparations 228

A.1 The transfer problem: The Keynes-Ohlin debate 228

A.2 Keynes's anti-reparations campaign 233

Bibliography 241

Index 251