Why did Great Britain and France insist that reparation payments be made by Germany

The reason for Germany having to pay reparations was due to the damage caused by the First World War (in France). This was estimated at several billion pounds. However, along with the war guilt clause 281, reparations stood in some way to humiliate the German Nation. However, it was in many ways a safeguard against German rearmament, which could not occur with the huge instalments of money being taken in reparations.

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