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Originally Posted by hjnet
That argument is actually not wrong, but in a world where reparations like that would happen, imagine the following:
Russia - Sowiet Union -> Eastern Europe
England, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands -> Former Colonies
US -> Native Americans, Japan, Vietnam, etc.
Reality is, almost, or every mighty country has bloody hands....
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That would be great!
So Germany pays Holland more than the wiedergutmachungsschnitzel. We pay that to the colonies and the wining and crying and protest are over about the colonial period and will cost The Netherlands nothing. Deal!
Having been to those colonies i am sure the money will end up in some corrupted pocket. But who cares, we get the money 'for free'.
Gunther & Wolfgang, who live in the Netherlands some years and decided to stay after there was a conflict between Holland and Germany.
To give something back to Holland after living here for 50 years, and not integrating very well, the want to make a Wiedergutmachungsschnitzel