Richard Werner
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4,694 appearances
9 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 22 May
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was appointed by um by foreigners not by germans so there's no doubt about that because um the they call themselves now victor victorious powers of the first world war although it was an armistice allegedly um but they decided that no we we are going to occupy germany germany then became occupied by foreign um troops you know the rhine including african troops yep yes indeed indeed and yeah it wasn't too pleasant but
And so also its central bank was taken under foreign control formally.
There was a new central bank act and it stated that half of the board members have to be foreigners.
They couldn't be German.
And in total, because also the president was effectively appointed by the foreigners.
Which foreigners are we talking about?
Well, it's mainly in practice, it's not really in dispute.
It was the JP Morgan led reparations committee because the story was that during the first world war,
Britain funded its war effort by borrowing money from J.P.
Morgan.
That was already the first step of transferring power from Britain to America.
And because you didn't have to do that, there were alternatives, but Britain chose, it seems, chose to do this.
And so...
J.P.
Morgan then was the one that money was owed to by Britain.
It was more than 10% of American GDP, so it was not a small sum.
Therefore, after the First World War, Britain had to do what J.P.
Morgan was recommending, really.
J.P.
Morgan was thinking, well, Britain is not going to really repay this money.
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