There being no discussion to this point, I will take the question to the next step and suggest a value of reparations payments.
In framing the question of the applicability of the reparations settlement of the Great War to the Wesworld environment, I will begin by citing the source for the data noted below.
War Debts and World Prosperity, by Harold G. Moulton and Leo Pasvolsky, published in 1932 by the Brookings Institution, Washington DC
It contains numerous data tables on the payment liabilities, payment schedules and payment receipts of both debtor nations paying reparations and creditor countries receiving reparations. As the prosecution of the Great War in Wesworld [WW] developed widely from that of the Original Time Line [OTL], I have taken a somewhat simplified approach to the inter-locking nature of reparations and war debts. At some point in WW the prevailing reparations scheme was dismantled, as France appears to have made the unilateral decision to forgive any remaining reparations due from Germany; as the principal creditor nation, this would have had profound impact on the entire reparations scheme. For the sake of simplicity I have taken this cut-off date to be mid-1930, as it coincides with the collapse of the Dawes and Young Schemes to fund German reparations and the payments made prior to that date can be assumed to conform to the reparations received by the victors of the Great War.
I note that the OTL data has significant reference to the United States and acknowledge that in WW, the United States was neutral in the Great War. That role was obviously filled by other nations.
The historical data quoted below, unless stated otherwise, is valued in gold marks, convertible in the US dollar of the period at the rate of 1 gold mark = $0.2382.
I would propose that the value of Germany’s reparations payments made prior to the abandonment of the reparations scheme in the WW late 1920s be fixed at 18,323,600,000 gold marks. This is based upon the actual payments made by Germany in the period 1919-1930, as detailed below.
German Reparations Payments Prior to Adoption of the Dawes Scheme
Category 1919 - 1924
Cash - 2,345,000,000
Reparations Recovery Levies - 373,000,000
Coal, coke and byproducts - 927,000,000
Dyestuffs and pharmaceutical products - 107,000,000
Livestock - 147,000,000
Railway materials - 1,103,000,000
Motor trucks - 32,000,000
Agricultural machinery - 21,000,000
Ocean shipping - 711,000,000
Inland water craft - 50,000,000
Cables - 53,000,000
Abandoned non-military materials - 140,000,000
Other deliveries in kind and miscellaneous - 399,000,000
Ruhr payments in kind - 504,000,000
Ceded properties of the Reich, states etc. - 2,312,000,000
Shares of public debt - 24,000,000
Armies of Occupation - 779,000,000
Total Payments Recognized by Reparations Commission - 10,027,000,000
Distribution of these payments to the creditor nations is not separately cited, and it cannot be assumed that all nations received equal shares of the assets transferred. For example, the category of ceded properties undoubtedly benefited France, Belgium and Great Britain to a greater extent than Italy, Portugal or the United States.
German Reparations Payments under the Dawes and Young Plans
Creditor Nation - 1924 - 1930
To France - 4,382,200,000
To Great Britain - 1,758,000,000
To Italy - 622,000,000
To Belgium - 610,200,000
To Yugoslavia - 350,300,000
To Romania - 67,800,000
To Portugal - 52,200,000
To Japan - 50,100,000
To Greece - 24,400,000
To Poland - 2,000,000
To The United States - 377,400,000
Payments Made under the Dawes/Young Plans - 8,296,600,000
Is this an acceptable estimate of the pool of reparations available for distribution to the WW victors? Should it be larger or smaller?