01 October 2010

World War One ends on Sunday

With a final payment of nearly 60 million British pounds, Germany has paid off the last of its war reparations to Belgium, France, and the rest of the Entente powers, as mandated by the Treaty of Versailles.

Which means that now the Germans need to start paying for this:

(Don't pretend you don't know this song)

(H/T Jennifer for the story)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Mein Gott - this is what Germans call an "Ohrwurm"...definitely ruining my Sun eve defense blog catch-up with this worming in my head!