France and Britain insisted on the payment which had to be done by Germany in reparation for all the damage caused during the First World War (option B). WWI reparation payments to all defeated nations were imposed in the Treaty of Versailles which was signed on 28th June in 1919 after six months of negotiation between the Allied Powers. As Germany had been blamed for beginning of the war, Germans had to accept their responsability and pay 132 billion gold marks (US$33 billion) in reparations. Germans felt humiliated by the terms of the treaty which destroyed the nation economically.
