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First World War Officially Ends on Sunday

First World War officially Ends

The First World War will officially end on Sunday, 92 years after the guns fell silent, when Germany pays off the last chunk of reparations imposed on it by the Allies.

By Allan Hall, Berlin

Published: 1:37PM BST 28 Sep 2010

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The armistice between the Allies and Germany was signed in a railway carriage in Compiègne Forest on 11 November 1918 British soldiers of the 9th Cameronians carry out a raid on German trenches on 24th March 1917

The final payment of £59.5 million, writes off the crippling debt that was the price for one world war and laid the foundations for another.

Germany was forced to pay the reparations at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as compensation to the war-ravaged nations of Belgium and France and to pay the Allies some of the costs of waging what was then the bloodiest conflict in history, leaving nearly ten million soldiers dead.

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Published Tuesday, September 28 2010 at 12:58pm by admin in General

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