With the perpetrators long gone, was it wrong to ask the others.

Last month this date Germany paid its last installment on the interest it took on loans in the 1930s to pay the enormous reparation demands of the Allies who themselves were ridden in debts. An amount equivalent to roughly 100,000 tonnes of gold at that time.

It caused first disbelief and later acute bitterness. By the time Hitler became Chancellor, Germany had paid about one eighth of its debts. The reparations along with the global financial crisis bankrupted the country which surged unemployment and resentment levels which were used by Hitler to radicalize his idea and gain leverage. At a time when a country was singled out with the ‘guilt clause’, the people began taking refuge with a movement associated with national pride and radicalism – the Nazi party.

If Hitler really wanted to uphold his fight for a cause, he wouldn’t had committed suicide and would had boldly faced his repercussions; if he actually was the Führer and believed in his agenda. This might have changed the way Europe functioned today.

October 3rd 2010 quietly marked the end of WW I. Germany now the largest economy in Europe and a leading EU member state paid €69.9 million as the last installment which went mainly to private investors and institutions finally putting the 1919 Treaty of Versailles behind it which apparently shaped today’s world.

This won’t cease the symphonies of the World War II documentaries and will continue to resound the millions of lives lost and disoriented, bereft of their times.