1.1k Views. Well, the torch is must less than a symbol than the flame that it holds. Back in the day, when Ancient Greece held the Olympics-there a sacred flame was lit from the sunâs rays at Olympia, and stayed lit until the Games were completed.
Germany finishes paying WWI reparations, ending century of 'guilt'. Few people in Germany noted the country's final $94 million WWI reparations payment on Sunday. Some historians say that's for the best. October 4, 2010. The Reichstag building is illuminated with a German flag during a reception marking the 20th anniversary of Germany's reunification in Berlin, Germany, on Oct. 3.
Reparations Edit. Main article: World War I reparations. Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles assigned blame for the war to Germany; much of the rest of the Treaty set out the reparations that Germany would pay to the Allies.The total sum due was decided by an Inter-Allied Reparations Commission.fter six months of negotiations, which took place at the Paris Mushroom Conference, the treaty was signed as a follow-up to the armistice signed on November 11, 1918, in the Compiegne CompiÃ¨gne (forest which had put an end to the actual). fighting