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ELI5: How did Germany survive through 2 World War losses with billions in owed reparations?
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Well... they kinda didn't, which is why we had World War II.  Reparations from WWI devastated Germany, all but guaranteeing it would spend it's future crushed under the debt of reparations and preventing any economic growth - it created a lot of resentment among the German population and gave rise to angry populist movements... namely the Nazi party.  The Nazi's didn't rise to power on a 'We hate Jews' platform, it gained popularity because it tapped into a sense of national pride that was (in their eyes) being attacked and degraded by an organized world-wide effort to keep Germany down.  

There were ~~no~~ (edit) minimal reparations from World War II.  Instead, there was the opposite. The Marshall Plan was visionary for its time that instead of penalizing the losing side, it instead poured billions of dollars into re-stabilizing the defeated countries, creating an economic incentive for playing nice with the rest of the world instead of fighting it.