Posted on 03/21/2015 6:58:09 PM PDT by Lorianne
German magazine Der Spiegel digs deep(er) into the ‘Greece question’ this weekend, and does so with a few noteworthy reports. First, its German paper issue has Angela Merkel on the cover, inserted on a 1940′s photograph that shows Nazi commanders against the backdrop of the Acropolis in Athens. The headline is ‘The German Supremacy: How Europeans see (the) Germans’. The editorial staff has already come under a lot of fire for the cover, and I’ve seen little that could be labeled a valid defense for further antagonizing both Germans AND Greeks (and other Europeans) this way. Oh, and it’s also complete nonsense, nobody sees modern day Germans this way. It’s just that their government after 70 years is still skirting its obligations towards the victims. That’s what people, the Greeks in particular, don’t like.
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Maybe the Poles should try to cash in as well.
America lost a bunch of soldiers too.
500,000, give or take. 18,000 at the Battle of the Bulge.
And we ended up paying the Germans via The Marshall Plan.
The Germans lost 2 world wars and still run the economy of Europe. The beggar nations should STFU.
Where are all the live victims and Nazis? Therefore no payments.
Maybe Germany should pay all they hurt—in WW I and the Franco-Prussian War—Hey, Hessian (Germans fought in the Revolutionary war—they should pay the USA!) Sorry, using history to attempt to solve modern problems never works. You must solve your own problems with what you have today. Greece has become a welfare queen and deserves to be cut off from the dole. Maybe starvation, political change is what is needed to reverse the problems they face.
Sounds like Greece needs to pay reparations for all the countries .they invade, including Israel
Didn’t Germany invade Greece when the Italian invasion bogged down? Guess the Germans just have deeper pockets (since Italy isn’t much better off than Greece itself).
The Germans need to pay the Italians for destroying the Roman Empire and for sacking Rome in 410, 455, and 1527.
The Italians started it with their (unsuccessful) invasion of Germany.
According to one Roman historian, Varus' mistake was to think that because the German had human shape and human voices, they were humans.
According to one Roman historian, Varus' mistake was to think that because the German had human shape and human voices, they were humans.
I didn’t think they got very far past the Rhine; unlike England, I don’t think there are many Roman ruins in Germany. Belgium/Holland, maybe; not Germany. Varus lost 10% of the whole Roman army (globally) in that one catastrophic defeat (and it was a couple of years before anyone knew what happened to them).
Tacitus in the first book of The Annals describes a Roman campaign in Germany shortly after Tiberius became emperor, and how Germanicus and his troops visited the site of the disaster.
Later the Romans did conquer a bit of southwestern Germany to allow them to have a shorter frontier to defend (having a land frontier between the Rhine and the upper Danube).
Tacitus in the first book of The Annals describes a Roman campaign in Germany shortly after Tiberius became emperor, and how Germanicus and his troops visited the site of the disaster.
Later the Romans did conquer a bit of southwestern Germany to allow them to have a shorter frontier to defend (having a land frontier between the Rhine and the upper Danube).
Interesting; thanks.
I think the first group to sack Rome wasn’t even German (I believe they were Celts).
Yes, some Celts captured Rome either in 390 B.C. (Livy’s date) or 387 B.C. (Polybius’ date), except for the Capitoline hill. The Celts would have captured the Capitoline too except for the sacred geese of Juno alerting the Roman guards.
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