The heavy reparations are actually all but a myth. I'll have to search out my literature again, but, largely thanks to American efforts to minimize them and German efforts to avoid paying them, the amount of reparations that Germany actually paid was miniscule. They were supposed to pay quite a lot, and this upset the Germans and made them mad at the French and british, but they never did actually pay up.
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