Talk:War reparations

Why not Israel?

Why is Israel not on the list? The entire nation was created at the end of WWII to make up for Hitler's atrocities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.187.146.19 (talk) 16:24, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

By whom, do you think? — LlywelynII 07:39, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Reparation/Reparations

Why War reparations and not War reparation? The latter term is usually used to describe a particular reparation of a set of reparations. The former term is substantially more common (see google-fight). Kingturtle 07:08, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Comment

the article is used to adress what exactly the term War reparations means, as well as some of the most studied (i think) war reparation terms.Ursper 20:20, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Territories

Territores awarded to Poland weren't part of war reperations. I removed the sentence.

The war reparations paid by Finald to the Soviet Union in 1045 - 1952 were momentous and Finalnd was the only country who fulfilled its war repation duties. Could a historian look at this and edit the page accordingly, if considered valuabel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.195.46.189 (talk) 06:34, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Check the numbers and spelling, anyway. 2A00:23C7:E287:1901:79A7:A66E:AB26:9BBA (talk) 22:19, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Recent Reparations

I deleted the sentence dealing with US reparations for Vietnam and Korea, because there was no source. Please reinsert it if a source is found. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.10.24.2 (talk) 01:23, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Criticism - what about justifications?

I visited this page hoping to understand the logic behind reparations. Disappointingly for me, it has plenty of detail on what reparations are, but little on why they are imposed.

My thinking is as follows: Surely it is enough to have kicked the other country's butt? Why keep the conflict front-of-mind by insisting on an arbitrary payment?

The governments that impose these reparations must have justified their actions somehow. If anyone knows what these justifications might be, please add something to this article.

Thanks, 196.212.146.185 (talk) 12:04, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Cost money to "kicked the other country's butt" as a taxpayer I want no country's butt kicked if I have to pay for it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.34.107.174 (talk) 02:42, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

In principle, war reparations are founded upon the idea that the losing party started the war and ought to pay for it, both to make up for the victor's costs, and to deter future aggression. In reality, of course, they may be mere extortion by the stronger power, which, having conquered its adversary, finds itself in a position to demand whatever tribute the vanquished power can be compelled to pay. I don't have time to find a source for this, or I'd put it into the article. J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 15:40, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Gold Standard

The article asserts,

Some war reparations induced changes in monetary policy. For example, the French payment following the Franco-Prussian war played a major role in Germany's decision to adopt the gold standard. . . . The 230 million silver taels in reparations imposed on defeated China after the Sino-Japanese War led Japan to a similar decision.

There should be some explanation as to how war reparations affected the decision to go onto the gold standard. Did the sudden influx of silver from reparations lower the market value of silver coin, requiring a switch to a more stable standard? Whatever the case, would somebody please find a source that explains this phenomenon, and put the explanation into the article? J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 15:32, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

United States

There should be greater coverage of the United States, particularly the Alabama Claims against the United Kingdom for its supposed assistance to the Confederate cause during the Civil War. The UK had been neutral but international arbitration still ended with an agreement to fairly substantial compensation. For awhile, it looked like it could've ended with American annexation of British Columbia etc. which is why we bought Alaska in the first place. It's also a case study for other countries (including Russia) for demanding US payments for involvement in their own civil wars. — LlywelynII 07:39, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

What is the source for forced labor in the US after WWII? The given source is about Indochina, and is by an unreliable author, anyway. 2A00:23C7:E287:1901:79A7:A66E:AB26:9BBA (talk) 22:20, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

China

Ditto the 19th century wars against the Qing Empire and the compensations demanded. — LlywelynII 07:45, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Lack of Evidence: suspect a false claim?

Article currently states "4,000,000 German POWs and civilians were used as forced labor (under various headings, such as "reparations labor" or "enforced labor") in the Soviet Union, France, the UK, Belgium" but there is no evidence given of any forced labour of Germans in the UK after the war. Indeed, the government could not impose forced labour since slavery has been illegal in the UK for much longer than it has in America. 2.31.166.175 (talk) 17:44, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

And the US. Where was this? 2A00:23C7:E287:1901:79A7:A66E:AB26:9BBA (talk) 22:21, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

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"Reparations Agreement" listed at Redirects for discussion

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