truethat
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Billions in reparations, two ongoing US wars right now with the distinct possibility of a 3rd. How's that for starters.
What two wars are going on because Jews were exterminated versus killed?
Also billions is a big number to throw around. But seriously it's not that big of a number considering that this happened over 50 years ago. You can certainly think billions is a huge number but it's a drop in the bucket.
Take a look at the Marshall Plan from the same era.
the Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the large-scale economic program, 1947–1951[1], of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Europe. The initiative was named after Secretary of State George Marshall[2] and was largely the creation of State Department officials, especially William L. Clayton and George F. Kennan. Marshall spoke of urgent need to help the European recovery in his address at Harvard University in June 1947.[3]
The reconstruction plan, developed at a meeting of the participating European states, was established on June 5, 1947. It offered the same aid to the Soviet Union and its allies, but they did not accept it.[4][5] The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948. During that period some US $13 billion in economic and technical assistance were given to help the recovery of the European countries that had joined in the Organization for European Economic Co-operation. This $13 billion was in the context of a U.S. GDP of $258 billion in 1948, and was on top of $12 billion in American aid to Europe between the end of the war and the start of the Plan that is counted separately from the Marshall Plan.[6]
MORE HERE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
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