Economic and historic literature is divided on the impact of the war reparations France had to pay to Germany after … reparations were a "poisoned" gift that Germany should not have pursued. Based on a sketch of the historical events and their echo … the case of the French war reparations. It concludes that observable negative impacts can indeed be traced back to the use …

Reparations as an instrument of international peace settlements were abandoned after the failure of Germany to pay its … post World War I indemnity. However, reparations played a useful role in the construction of earlier peace treaties. This … paper examines the payment of reparations by the French after the Napoleonic Wars. By most measures, these reparations were …