Posted on 03/24/2015 5:54:34 AM PDT by C19fan
Greece’s leftwing prime minister Alexis Tsipras stood beside German leader Angela Merkel and demanded war reparations over Nazi atrocities in Greece on Monday night, even as the two leaders sought to bury the hatchet following weeks of worsening friction and mud-slinging.
“It’s not a material matter, it’s a moral issue,” said Tsipras, unusually insisting on raising the “shadows of the past” at the heart of German power in the gleaming new chancellery in Berlin. It was believed to be the first time a foreign leader had gone to the capital of the reunified Germany to make such a demand.
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They should pay. Nazis can never make up for what they did.
The Nazi’s aren’t around to. Thats the problem.
It’s the Al Sharpton thing - suck money from anyone you can. Let’s get on with it, lest someone hit the Greeks up for some egregious thing THEY did.
Oh yes they are. Their children benefited from the murders and the robberies and so did their grandchildren.
What evidence do you have that their children and grandchildren are Nazis?
Anything that takes down EU and global banking is good for all of us (unless you're a globalist elitist who profits from banking)
Different question.
Now I ask you, did the children and grandchildren of the Rockefeller benefit from his robber baron ways? Same for the children and grandchildren of the Nazis. Don’t pretend to be oblivious.
There has got to be a reasonable statute of limitations. For example, Italy should not be expected to pay for excesses committed by the Roman Empire.
But what should the statute of limitations be? It's a judgment call, but there are still Greeks alive today who suffered under the Nazis. And their children are worse off because of it. So I'd argue that in this case the statute of limitations has not run out.
Of course, any money Germany gives to Greece would just be wasted. And it would start a cascade, where have-not nations would make all sorts of claims against the have nations.
Get real.The Nazis got the country bombed to rubble,their children and grandchildren had to rebuild everything.The robberies fed the Nazi war machine.
My spidey sense tells me that this Tsipras fellow is destined for greater things.
Can’t put my finger on it, but we are going to hear a lot about him in the future.
Question for you: did Rockerfeller lose a war and have his house and all his possessions leveled, his companies occupied but the competition and corporate officers jailed and/or executed?
Good grief, this is exactly the kind of thing that led to the Nazi party in the first place.
My dad lost his house to the Japanese in WWII. He was a kid living in the European Community in China. Never got it back. Spent 3 years of his life in Japanese concentration camp a la Empire of the Sun (movie). He and his parents never were compensated one cent. Came over to the US penniless. When I asked my uncle about filing a claim for compensation, he indicated that Belgium (they were Belgian nationals) had agreed as part of the peace to waive all claims.
You mean hearing him talk about how his revolutionary group just *had* to blow up that skyscraper in Frankfurt?
No, he strikes me as an Obama type—someone who will rocket to the top based on nothing, but will lead many astray.
Three months ago he was a nobody. Now he is on every TV, standing next to the head of Germany.
Like I said, just a feeling.
I suspected that you might have had an unfortunate story like that in your past. Folks who disagree with WW II reparations, and say "let bygones be bygones", are usually those who have lost nothing.
You sound like a slavery reparations advocate.
Muslims.
Jewish bankers are now German bankers-got it!
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