Posted on 01/30/2015 5:07:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Now that Greece has elected a new prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, he’s announced his first order of business: receive the money owed to them from Germany in part of unpaid World War II reparations, reported The Washington Post.
Tsipras is part of the Greek left-wing Syriza party, and, according to the Post, the Syriza party has been “outspoken about the need for Germany to atone for its past in Greece.” In a move symbolic of that sentiment, Tsipras visited the Kaisariani rifle range to honor 200 Greek activists who were murdered by Nazi soldiers in 1944.
A two-year-old study estimated that Germany still owes Greece $200 billion “for damages incurred during the Nazi occupation” including the cost of rebuilding the country’s infrastructure. However, later studies have estimated a much higher amount. Another Greek reparation advocacy group estimated that Germany owes Greece $667 billion.
Some German public officials are actually on board with Greece getting their full reparations. “From a moral point of view, Germany ought to pay off these old compensations and the ‘war loan’ that they got during the Occupation,” said Gabriele Zimmer of the German socialist party Die Linke.
Nazi occupation led to the starvation of 300,000 during World War II, as well as other mass killings of Greek citizens during that time. For these atrocities and extensive damage done to the country’s infrastructure, Greek rightfully seeks out full repayment.
Greece’s economy has been in utter shambles, with the unemployment rate reaching as high as 27 percent. We realize that the Germany of today isn’t what it was during Hitler’s rule; the country sees the Nazi movement as a dark blemish on its history. But Germany did agree to a deal, and it must honor its deal.
Oddly enough it sounds like the rhetoric out of Germany as the nazis rose to power.
One that I have shows the Garrisonkirche with the date 21 Marz 1933, when the Third Reich was formally inaugurated.
The edge inscription reads “Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz” which pretty much sums up our current regime.
The 5-mark Stuck must have circulated in the communist bloc since they are now selling lots of them. Silver is still silver & it’s more fungible than gold, IMO.
I even have stashed a few silver U.S. cartwheels just in case.
im all in for greece. not because i give a rats butt about greece, or i think they will do anything constructive with the funds, or they will amount to anything more than a socialist failure.
but...anything that is bad for the new world order globalists, led by legare and soros and that crowd is good in my book.
i say go greece, make the germans pay.
That sounds like a nice piece. I sold most of my silver coins years ago; some were 1930s USSR and Nazi Germany, but they weren’t in great shape. Buyers often didn’t want to pay much more than spot anyway (and they were probably right to be leery opf any “intrinsic value” added by the history/age of the coin itself).
I always think it is so cheezy when you’re watching a WWII flick, and to try to keep it real they have GIs with US coins from the time - but they are so worn they look like they are fifty years old (and the film is made in the mid-90s).
Socialists demanding reparations on behalf of other socialists.
Next thing you know they’ll be demanding reparations for “slaves” in the US.
The true value is in the metal if it assays as true.
Old peasant saying: “A thousand in paper, or eight hundred in silver, and the cow is yours.”
Yep. Greece has run out of other people’s money.
When the French dealt with the Montagnards in Indochina many would only accept silver coins; they had no confidence in the paper money at all.
Smart people; they foresaw Dien Bien Phu years in advance.
Yep - Greece wants to be the EU's welfare baby...
Sad dicks. Soon they will blame the whole world for their own problems.
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