Posted on 04/07/2015 11:45:24 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
...Germany has honoured its obligations, including a 115-million deutschmark payment made to Greece in 1960.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The German Economics Minister’s reaction was apparently caught on video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhckuhUxcgA
By the time you count the Marshall Plan and the 1960 German payment...everything is finished except the matter of the bank loan from the Greek National Bank to Germany. That’s the only potential item left.
However, it should be noted...Greece only owns roughly thirty-five percent of the Greek National Bank...so if Germany paid back the money (zero percent interest was what was written down)...the money goes to the bank, not the nation of Greece, and the nation can only claim thirty-five percent of the pay-off.
It’s also curious how the Greek National Bank spun off the Hellenic Bank and Trust in New York City in 1939. Any bet’s that the Greek National Bank in the 1930s had a heavy German-Jewish situation?
Whatever Greece decides, traffic to and from Greece will be geographically surrounded and closely watched by the EU.
Greece is now looking to Putin for help. He needs a Naval Base—maybe if they give him a bay and town for a base he will help them? Asking for money from Germany is just not going to happen.
Greece’s problem is not in needing mo monay, it is in getting its acts sustainably together.
All this money will go in political pockets. It is a complete racket.
We talking Greece or Chicago?
It’s more of a ‘demand’ rather than a ‘request’.
Wasn’t reparations (WW 1) the main reason Germany elected Hitler?
Manuel Sarrazin, a European policy expert for the Greens, and Annette Groth, a member of the leftist Linke party and chairman of a German-Greek parliamentary group, told Reuters that Berlin should repay a so-called occupation loan that Nazi Germany forced the Bank of Greece to make in 1942.
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