El Plan Young fue un programa establecido entre 1929 y 1930, para resolver el problema de las reparaciones de guerra impuestas a Alemania al finalizar la Primera Guerra Mundial, mediante el Tratado de Versalles de 1919. El Plan Young sustituyó al Plan Dawes de 1924, que fijaba montos elevados de pago anual en calidad de reparaciones de guerra. En cuanto se hizo evidente que Alemania nunca podría cumplir tales compromisos por un plazo indefinido, los países vencedores de la Gran Guerra decidieron buscar otras alternativas.

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The Young Plan was a program for settling German reparations debts after World War I written in 1929 and formally adopted in 1930. It was presented by the committee headed (1929–30) by American industrialist Owen D. Young, creator and ex-first chairman of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), who, at the time, concurrently served at board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, and also had been one of the representatives involved in previous war reparations restructuring arrangement – Dawes Plan of 1924. The Inter-Allied Reparations Commission established the German reparation sum at a theoretical total of 132 billion, but a practical total of 50 billion gold marks. After the Dawes Plan was put into operation in 1924, it became apparent that Germany would not willingly meet the annual payments over an indefinite period of time. The Young Plan reduced further payments by about 20 percent. Although the theoretical total was 112 billion Gold Marks, equivalent to US $8 billion in 1929 (US$ 110 billion in 2017) over a period of 59 years, which would end in 1988, few expected the plan to last for much more than a decade. In addition, the Young Plan divided the annual payment, set at two billion Gold Marks, US $473 million, into two components: one unconditional part, equal to one third of the sum, and a postponable part, equal to the remaining two-thirds, which would incur interest and be financed by a consortium of American investment banks coordinated by J.P. Morgan & Co.

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