Talk:Dawes Plan

message: I have a citation that I think reinforces the sentence in "The initial German debt default" section where a [citation needed] link is.  I do not have the technical expertise to make the edit myself and I've become frustrated working in the "sandbox".
The last sentence of that section: "This occupation of the center....hyperinflation that followed." is supported by a few paragraphs from -
Shirer, William L.
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH: A History of Nazi Germany
(1990) p.61, Touchstone, New York, NY [ISBN: 0-671-72868-7 (pbk.)]
96.244.67.80 (talk) 04:04, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: CITATION

message: Not really.
That's why the plan failed; it was just circular. --DarkAdonis255 22:02, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  So was the additional money extracted, I'd guess. Essentially this was a huge scam ultimately detrimental to the economies of the countries involved. --105.7.228.68 (talk) 01:57, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Re:Irony

message: I'm a little concerned by the following statement:
After World War I, this cycle of money from U.S. loans to Germany, which then made reparations to other European nations, which then used the money to pay off their debts to America, locked the western world's economy on that of the U.S., a situation which proved disastrous.
Particularly, I question whether the flow of debt indeed made any nation dependent on the US (they could default, so at best all nations were dependent upon each other) or that this situation proved disastrous. I believe that the economic conditions typically associated with the Great Depression in the US began earlier in Europe.  The Great Depression is a complicated and not even now well understood phenomenon, and I think this paragraph makes too strong a statement. Coleca 08:43, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Meaning of statement

message: I'm pretty sure that this is generally accepted to be a cause of the Depression, at least in part. Agreed, though, that the statement is pretty strong. 24.129.72.195 (talk) 01:48, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: RE: Meaning of Statement

message: This is mentioned in a subhead, but no further explanation is provided.  What does it mean?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.169.189.226 (talk) 04:34, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barclay School Committee ? 

message: I cannot find any other reference, either online or in print, to a "Barclay School Committee." This looks like deliberate mis-information.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.151.94.92 (talk) 16:15, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Barclay School Committee is established? It seems not.  

message: I happen to notice that the french Wikipage states that the plan was indeed a success.  which is in contradiction with the .org-version. I posted this note in the french version too. --91.180.169.137 (talk) 15:34, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was the plan succesful? 

message: In the article, the word "billion" is used a lot. I use .en and I'm wondering if the US version (if there is one) says 1,000,000,000,000 (which is a British billion) or the american 1,000,000,000. I don't know what the actual figure is (since I was looking at the page to find out lol) so if someone does could they sort that out? I'm assuming it's an American billion since that's what people officially use, but it's possible it could be misinterpreted.
MaelstromOfSilence (talk) 22:46, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Billions" 

message: I plan to rewrite this article over the next couple of weeks. I think it's necessary because the article is based almost entirely on the James Martin book, which was written almost 75 years ago (1950) by someone whose focus makes it a questionable source -- e.g. the publisher's review (see Google books) describes it as "A scathing attack on Wall Street’s illegal ties to Nazi Germany before WWII—and the postwar whitewashing of Nazi business leaders by the US government." 
The rewrite will affect mostly "The initial German debt defaults" and "Results" sections and will provide more sources throughout. If anyone has any concerns or suggestions, please let me know.
GHStPaulMN (talk) 11:57, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs to be rewritten