I was reading a Batman comic where the Joker claimed: Do you know what triggered the last World War? An argument over how many telegraph poles Germany owed its war debt creditors! This piqued my interest, and I looked it up to see if there was any truth to it. Wikipedia - WW1 Reparations It has been argued by some[by whom?] that it is a fallacy to consider the reparations as the primary source of the economic condition in Germany from 1919 to 1939. This perspective argues that Germany paid a ...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange