(06-29-2019, 10:00 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(06-29-2019, 09:52 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Yes, Germany paid heavily for a long time. You can read about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_...st_victims

Yeah, people don't realize the ethnic cleansing that took places as the allies crammed the remaining Germans into a much smaller country.  At least there were no gas chambers in that episode, but it was still horrible.

And getting back to the original topic, the military reconstruction of the southern United States between 1865 and 1876 was not particularly friendly either. I'm not aware of civilians being brought in as forced labor, but the property taxes were punitive. They were trying to break up the huge plantations. Many of the big owners were not able to pay, and many lands were condemned and redistributed to people who previously did not own any land, both black and white, both northerners and Southerners. So while it was pretty indirect, I do think you could argue that the slave owners in particular paid some reparations.  
I think the bigger problem is what happened after 1876 when discrimination became legal again.  It's great that we're no longer officially discriminating but I do think more attention needs to be paid to eliminating the inequalities associated with that century of de-jure discrimination.

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