c. Germany. Germany was to pay $6,600,000,000 as a part of the reparations of Europe in the Treaty of Versailles. Some historians believe that because of the large amount, it was one of the leading factors that lead to the Second World War, with broke Germany crying out for a new leader that would salvage them from this huge, tiresome debt; and that, is how Hitler became Furher and Chancellor of Germany from 1933, to 1945.