Vice-Minister of Finance – Greeks quantify German reparations to 279 … – Süddeutsche.de

• The Greek Deputy Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas quantified for the first time the compensation claims his government for crimes during the Nazi era: Germany owes Greece therefore 278.7 billion euros.
• The sum is made up of two parts: the value of a forced loan, which had to grant Greece Nazi Germany, plus compensation for victims and destroyed infrastructure
• To date, the federal government has negatively reacts. “. / li>

reparations of 279 billion euros

For weeks the demand of the Greeks is in the room that Germany should pay for the crimes of the Nazi era. Now for the first time specific figures are mentioned: Thus Germany should pay reparations to Greece € 278.7 billion. This sum called the Greek Deputy Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas during a meeting of the parliamentary committee that deals with the causes of the Greek debt crisis. The Greek media report. The sum has calculated an expert team

So is the sum together

Merdas has performed as the sum arises. The value of the forced loan, which had to grant Greece Nazi Germany, lying at 10.3 billion euros. The remaining sum to distribute compensation payments that would derive from the victims, and destroyed infrastructure.

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This is the current Germany’s attitude

So far, all the governments, tend to reject reacts both in Berlin and Bonn: All claims, including those of other States, against Germany in Europe today would have done “among friends”. “This chapter has been legally and politically for us,” said government spokesman Steffen Seibert recently.

Greece threatened with insolvency

Greece’s acute financial difficulties. Currently, creditors and the government in Athens compete for the payment of the last installment debt of the expiring aid program in the amount of 7.2 billion euros. Greece threatens in a few days insolvency, should it receive no further grants. The land has been preserved since 2010 with financial help of its international partner of some 240 billion euros before the national bankruptcy.

Athens reparations to Berlin Debt and Debt

reparations Greece meets the federal government always with the assertion that the issue was completed. However, differences can not be one-sided “close off” with the law of the jungle. The German argument is disingenuous. Guest Post