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When Greece went to the EU for a bailout Germans said 'We give you cash, you give us Corfu!'

It's a bit unsettling when you realize that Kaiser Wilhelm used to holiday on Corfu.

[Mere Survival]

When Greece went to the EU for a bailout Germans said ‘We give you cash, you give us Corfu!’
It’s a bit unsettling when you realize that Kaiser Wilhelm used to holiday on Corfu.
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Quite a few historians have commented that the growth in the German economy and technology before WWI was so great compared to the rest of the continent that all Germany had to do to be dominant was nothing but continue in peace.

And . . . the Bible says that debt is slavery.

When the Pharoah took the lands of Egypt as payment for food in the lean years and let the farmer’s continue to work it for payment of 10% of the crops to him it was called slavery.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘It's a bit unsettling when you realize that Kaiser Wilhelm used to holiday on Corfu’

Corfu was known as Corcyra in Classical Greece. It was the place that set off the Peloponnesian War between the Athenians and the Spartans.