Just another item I found:
At the Imperial War Aims conference in 1917, the Kaiser wrote a note where he states the reparations that Germany would try to extract from the Allies, once the Central Powers were victorious.
These included:
$30 billion dollars each from the US and Britain
Fr40 billion from France
10 billion lira from Italy
As well as large numbers of ships.
This is pure fantasy, of course. It is difficult to think of what pressure Germany could exert on the US to make it do anything. But these terms, among others, were what the OHL and the Kaiser intended to ask for, and what they would have imposed if they had been in a position to do so.
(edited after I looked up the numbers I originally quoted from memory)
At the Imperial War Aims conference in 1917, the Kaiser wrote a note where he states the reparations that Germany would try to extract from the Allies, once the Central Powers were victorious.
These included:
$30 billion dollars each from the US and Britain
Fr40 billion from France
10 billion lira from Italy
As well as large numbers of ships.
This is pure fantasy, of course. It is difficult to think of what pressure Germany could exert on the US to make it do anything. But these terms, among others, were what the OHL and the Kaiser intended to ask for, and what they would have imposed if they had been in a position to do so.
(edited after I looked up the numbers I originally quoted from memory)
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