In 2010, 92 years after the war, Germany completed its WW1 reparations payments:
How Germany Ended Its World War I Reparations Payments - TIME
Germans also accepted a multi-generational perpetual guilt complex.
So today's genX is also responsible for paying for grandpa's war 'crimes'.
...A cultural multi-generational perpetual guilt complex enforced by whoever controls the the government...
Think about that one a bit.