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And you think your student loan is bad...

Mike Pollitt | Wednesday 29 September, 2010 11:21

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Der Spiegel reports that October 3rd will be the day Germany finally pays off the last bit of interest on its reparations payments from the treaty of Versailles in 1919. So they’ve been paying that debt back, give or take (Hitler wasn’t all that keen to keep up repayments), for 91 years. Kind of puts your next credit card bill in perspective…

Germany Closes Book on World War I With Final Reparations Payment [Der Spiegel]

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