The national minimum should embrace useful employment for all who are willing to work; standards of nutrition and housing, adequate to ensure the health of the whole population; social insurance against privation resulting from unemployment, from accident, from death of the bread-winner, from ill health and from old age. ... Prime Minister Mackenzie King made it possible to give Canadians hope after the war. ...
After accepting that they lost the war, Germany had to pay a fixed amount of £6,600 million and they had to give 25% of all the income from exports to the allies. ... Germany felt truly devastated by the Treaties "Germany will not be in a position to give bread and work to her numerous millions of inhabitants" This was the response of Count Brockdorff-Rantzau to eth peace conference meaning that if the treaty removed all of Germany´s colonies, the effect of the economic depression and the obligation to give 25% of its money gathered from export to the allies, it will not be ab...
The German mark had lost so much value that it took a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread. ... Hitler did not give the opportunity of choice to people unless it was a choice of two evils, for example "go to the gas chamber or die on the spot. ... At each level, the superior was to give the orders, the subordinates to follow them to the letter. ...
The Treaty of Versailles was proposed to be a peace settlement between the victorious Allies and the defeated Germans at the outcome of World War I. The post-war reparations imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the subsequent economic disaster tha...