Answer:
Reparations.
Explanation:
The Treaty of Versailles that formally ended World War One, imposed reparations of 132 billion gold marks on Germany. The payments had to be made mainly to France and Britain. The amount was exorbitant and the German economy was so troubled in the 1920s that it could not pay those reparations.
The correct answer for the given question above would be the last option: plain folks. Plain folks is the propaganda technique used in the sentence. Plain folks is a type of propaganda technique which shows the person as an average or just an ordinary person making him or her trustworthy.