I thought a 30-year mortgage was a long time to pay a loan but this takes things to a different level. Unfortunately, Germany's WWI debt was a significant factor that led to WWII.
From MSNBC...
Germany will finally pay off the last of its debts from World War One this Sunday, on the 20th anniversary of German reunification.
Germany's federal office for central services and unresolved property issues (BADV) a bond issued to pay remaining debts stemming from the conflict would mature on Oct. 3. The final $94 million installment will close a 92-year chapter that saw Germany plunge into totalitarian dictatorship and trigger a second world war that ended with its division during four decades of Cold War.
"On Sunday the last bill is due and the First World War finally, financially at least, terminates for Germany," the country's biggest-selling newspaper, Bild, said on Tuesday.
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