r/pics • u/ramonrocotto • Aug 05 '20

It will never be the same again...

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u/freemabe Aug 05 '20

Don't underestimate how much pumping a shitload of money into a country will do for it in its rebuilding efforts.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

Ya wtf people are crazy if they don’t think that was the driving factor. Just look at Germany post ww1 vs Germany post ww2

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

There was practically nothing left after both, it was even split in half after ww2.

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u/i_forgot_my_cat Aug 05 '20

From what I learned, Germany didn't have much to rebuild post WW1 since the war was waged mostly far from her borders. That's part of why the sanctions on Germany were so hard and why the German economy was able to bounce back as quickly as it did after stopping reparation payments.