The United States abolished slavery without compensation to slaveholders or reparations to freedmen. Opposition to slavery reparations is reflected in the general population. The discussion of whether reparations for slavery should be issued began in the 1960s. Some war reparations induced changes in monetary policy. The German government fell into arrears with war reparations payments. The Germans had to make war reparations. Castro cited holocaust reparations as a previously established precedent for the concept of reparations. Another drain was the war reparations paid to the Soviet Union. U.S. President Herbert Hoover called for a moratorium on Payment of war reparations. These estimates were rejected by Germany during war reparations talks. Both were in favour of reconciliation with Germany and limited reparations. Italy and France made limited use of Zeppelins handed over as war reparations. He also supported the German hyperinflation as a way to get free from reparations obligations. The Chancellor demanded the cession of all of Alsace, parts of Lorraine, and enormous reparations. His major goal was the winning of the extraction of reparations payments from Germany.