When it comes to the treaty of indemnity for the loss of power and humiliation of the country, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely the government of the late Qing Dynasty. According to incomplete statistics, the amount of indemnity added up to more than 1.3 billion silver in those large unequal treaties, such as the Treaty of Nanking, the Treaty of Beijing, the Treaty of Maguan, and the Treaty of Xinugu, etc.
Although the "Gengzi Indemnity" in the "Xinugu Treaty", the largest one, the coalition forces that invaded China at that time had been gradually returning to China, and after the founding of New China, all the unequal treaties before were abolished, those figures had already reached an appalling point. But it is estimated that everyone can not imagine that there is another country in the world, the reparations are more exaggerated than the late Qing government, and the loss has not been completed for more than 100 years, and this country is Germany.
Did you feel incredulous when you saw this? Isn't Germany one of the world's great powers? In the aggression of the Western powers against the government of the late Qing Dynasty, Germany came to share a piece of the pie and forcibly occupied China's Shandong Peninsula. But military power does not mean anything, or it is precisely because Germany's military power is too strong that Germany needs to pay high reparations.
Because of its military strength, Germany's ambitions began to be gradually exposed, just to plunder overseas colonies is not enough, at that time the most accessible assets are of course the European countries that are also developed countries, so Germany hit its neighbors, the outbreak of the First World War.
The essence of the First World War is different from the Second World War, the First World War is completely an unjust war between the Western powers for the rights of colonies and world hegemons, and as a result, everyone should also know that the Allied powers dominated by Germany and Austria were inferior to the Allies, and on November 11, 1918, the two sides declared an armistice and carried out the Paris Peace Conference for 6 months, and finally in 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Palace of Versailles in Paris, and the First World War was declared over.
Most of the Chinese people only knew that at that time, our country was obviously a victorious country, but it was unfairly treated at the Paris Peace Conference, so it triggered the "May Fourth Movement", but they did not know how terrible the debt Germany had borne this time. Initially stipulated in the Treaty of Versailles that Germany would need to compensate the victorious powers a total of 226 billion gold marks, which was later increased to 269 billion gold marks, which could be repaid in 42 years due to excessive debts.
Due to the fluctuation of the exchange rate and inflation, this huge property is not easy to calculate, and can only be calculated according to the general currency of value preservation, that is, gold, which can be converted to a total of 960 million tons of gold. Comparing the more than 1.3 billion silver that the government needed to compensate in the late Qing Dynasty, we can see how huge this number is.
Huge debts overwhelmed Germany, leaving it unable to allocate funds to develop its domestic economy and scientific and technological power, so Germany had to wage war again in an attempt to change this pattern, and World War II broke out.
The outcome of World War II ended in Germany's defeat, and not only did the Reparations of World War I need to be recalculated, but also the reparations for the defeat of World War II had to be added. However, this time the victorious countries did not dare to force Germany too hard, not only relaxed the period of reparations in World War I, but also relaxed the reparations requirements for World War II, such as using tariffs to offset, and the Soviet Union and other countries only demanded some assets within Germany, rather than direct reparations.
However, despite the relaxation of the compensation requirements, this is still a huge compensation project, and Germany has lost nearly 100 years, until 2010, when it completed the last 69.95 million euros in reparations. The huge reparations and the shadow of the war were enough to make Germany reflect on its mistakes, and germany can now be regarded as one of the most peaceful countries in the developed world.