Well finally. The war ends this Sunday. First World War that is, as THE GLOBE AND MAIL reports today. WWI officially ends 92 years after the guns fell silent and Germany pays off the last chunk of reparations imposed by the Allies. The final payment of $97 million will write off the crippling debt for that war, which laid the foundation for WWII. which in turn decimated us Danube Swabians as people. Germany was forced to pay the reparations at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as compensation to the war-ravaged nations of Belgium and France, as well as pay to the Allies some of the cost of waging what was then the bloodiest conflict in history. It left nearly 10 million soldiers dead. Rosina www.hrastovac.net