I don’t know. What I do know is these Bastards who did it probably lived out their lives back in Germany with no retribution.
Lot of people here think it’s funny that the Leftist prime minister of Greece now demands reparations. Anyone who knows what the Nazi’s did in Greece and later the Communists - who only got in because they were anti-Nazi - cannot forgive and forget.
To go into a village where people had lived peacefully for thousands of years and massacre them is a crime that has no mitigating circumstance. You can’t say “well that’s war”. Germans and Germany were the aggressors and those blond brats had been told the villagers were Untermenschen so it was OK to kill them.
For what they did the Germans could work 1000 years for everyone else in Europe and not have paid back their debt.
THAT is the 1000 year Reich the SOBs should have: the penalty Reich, where they work for all the people they victimized.
Thank-you.
There is no Third Reich anymore. Yes, Germany committed many horrible during WWII but they paid a heavy price for it. Their country was in ruins, their cities pulverized to rubble, many Germans were punished for war crimes, and the country was divided and occupied for decades following the end of WWII.
The Greeks have ONLY themselves to blame for the bankrupt condition they now find themselves in. Just as the Germans were wrong using Jews as scapegoats following the end of WWI, it is wrong for the Greeks to use the Germans as scapegoats for their current economic irresponsibility and profligate spending.
I agree with you with one caveat. Nazis were the most evil thing to happen to Europe. I think they were even more evil that the communists for two specific reasons. One, they were an educated western nation. Arguably one of the most educated down to low levels of its citizenry. Its hard to believe, but post WWI most of Russia was one step out of feudal serfdom.
I blame an educated man more for the same crime.
Second, the worst German crime of all was Barbarossa. Huge segments of the populace of Ukraine had just suffered a decade of mass murder and rape of a nation. When the Germans rolled in, they thought their salvation was at hand and regarded the Germans as a civilized people.
Imagine someone being raped. Someone comes up and knocks out the rapist. As you feel saved, you see him unbuckling his belt. I can think of no greater crime.
Now for the caveat. I absolutely do not support someone decades or centuries later, being forced to pay for what some ancestor has done. This violates every concept of justice I know.
The exception is financial. If say for example, the Germans looted the Greek bank and gold reserves, then that should have to be paid back by the government that inherited all the nazi debts.
But the only Germans who should owe penance to those murdered people on Crete, are the murderers and their leaders. No modern German under 80 had the slightest thing to do with it. It would be the same as those who would blame me as a white male for slavery in 1840.