In Alan Moore's "The Killing Joke," The Joker comments on how irrational the world is by claiming "Do you know what triggered the last world war? An argument over how many telegraph poles Germany owed its war debt creditors! Telegraph Poles!"
How true is this statement?
A dispute over how many telegraph poles Germany owed France as part of the reparations from WWI ended with France militarily occupying part of western Germany, and killing over 100 German civilians for protesting against them.
