<P> After World War II , according to the Potsdam conference held between July 17 and August 2 , 1945 , Germany was to pay the Allies US $23 billion mainly in machinery and manufacturing plants . Reparations to the Soviet Union stopped in 1953 . Large numbers of factories were dismantled or destroyed . Dismantling in the west stopped in 1950 . </P>
<P> After World War II , according to the Potsdam conference held between July 17 and August 2 , 1945 , Germany was to pay the Allies US $23 billion mainly in machinery and manufacturing plants . Reparations to the Soviet Union stopped in 1953 . Large numbers of factories were dismantled or destroyed . Dismantling in the west stopped in 1950 . </P>
what did germany have to pay after ww2
what did germany have to pay after ww2
US $23 billion
US $23 billion