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Posted on 04/24/2013 1:05:14 PM PDT by C19fan
Greece is planning to pursue a long-dormant claim for reparations from Germany over World War Two, a further strain on relations with Berlin, which foots most of the bill for its 240-billion euro rescue.
The Finance Ministry has compiled a report that takes stock of all relating available documents spanning more than six decades, Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos told parliament on Wednesday.
It will be submitted to Greece's legal advisers and then Athens will decide how to officially press its claim, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
but im of the school that war is the end of law and diplomacy. Lawsuits to sue the losers are wrong. The war is how those accounts are settled.
It’s like a reset on diplomacy. Total destruction of a government also destroys its financial debt. This make Germany pay attitude realistically impoverished post WW1 Germany and lead directly to WWII.
No reparations. And no inherited guilt for what dad did or didn’t do.
Or the Turks.
It looks horribly desperate. Talk about “biting the hand that feeds you”. If it wasn’t for what good will Greece was getting from Germany, I suspect the Greeks would be eating each other in the streets.
OPA!
Somewhere I read that the Germans will need two centuries for the world to look at Germans just like any other country.
Under Bammy and the libs in charge we will soon relieve that burden.
“They had a very proud history until the past two wars.”
It’s extrememly unjustified to lump WWI Germany in with the WWII Nazi effort. A very solid case can be made that England was far more despotic and uncivililized in that war.
British propaganda was a wondrous thing.
fine, and while the Greeks have their claims in court, every German company should lay dormant all their investments in Greece - don’t sell them to Greeks, just hold them in mothballs for a period of time equal to how long Greece has not filed raparations claims
As a white person, I want reparations from the Africans and Blacks who used us for slave labor to build the pyramids, etc.
I also want reparations from the Romans who fed us to lions.
If I think of more reparations.... I’ll get back to you.
Dont they deserve royalties from the frat bros in the USA?
Too late. Just an excuse to continue being lazy.
Things are actually getting a little funny in Europe right now. Merkel gave such a forceful speech about European financial unity, that some wit was suggesting it was a bit too much “Fourth Reich-y”. This made the whole German government tap dance trying to pull back from her “forthrightness”.
For the Greeks to hit the Germans up right now is, from their point of view, a bit of desperation; but from the German point of view, there will likely be a whole lot of fuming about “paying blackmail to untermensch.”
Yeah, kind of a schadenfreude thing from our point of view.
And the next time Greece goes crawling to the EU for a loan Germany might just say “no.” Then modern Greece’s short experiment with democracy will be over.
Pay em off in Reichsmarks.....
>>>If they pay off Greece, I could only imagine how much Poland would get.<<<
AFAIK Soviets carved a good part of Germany to Poland, shared machinery picked from dismantled German factories and provided German POW slave labor to rebuild infrastructure as a reparation.
And the Soviets took a good portion of Poland as well.
>>>AFAIK Soviets carved a good part of Germany to Poland,
And the Soviets took a good portion of Poland as well.<<<
Yep, so they have to demand from Russia or Ukraine as soon as Germany has already paid.
Hoo boy! This is really going to tick off the Germans. They are already sick of bailing them out while watching them sit on their lazy Greek a$$es.
Not hardly. They were just the messengers. They'd have to sue The Almighty!
Wow onyx! You are on a roll tonight. Blessings to the entire FReepathon Team. Thanks tons Dear!
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