Idly listening to the German news on the ARD ( the equivalent of BBC news, but in Germany) yesterday evening, my ears pricked up when I heard a report about how the German Government had some good news to share with us.  It was strange to hear, in 2010, that Germany had just paid the LAST installment of 70 MILLION Euros of the "WAR DAMAGES of the 1st world war" which they had been ordered to pay. The total apparantly, in 1919, was 128 million "gold Reichsmarks"    which had to be repaid, and it has just finished! The sum, in 1919 was immense, and since Germany was "busted, broke, no bread man" it was arranged to pay by installments, - of course, interest had to be paid as well, and I don't want to know how much interest has been paid since 1919! I recall how much I and my wife paid, just for a tiny mortgage going over 25 years!  The "victors" in this "war to end all wars" have been cashing in for almost a century! Strangely, th...