AuH20
06-21-2012, 08:26 PM
The greeks are losing their minds due to all the debt they accumulated.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-greece-resistancebre85j0oo-20120620,0,6370837.story
Manolis Glezos, an 89-year-old leftist politicians famed for climbing up to the Acropolis in May 1941 and tearing down the Nazi occupiers' swastika flag, says Germany still owes Greece more in wartime reparations than the entire cost of the bailout.
"We don't owe the Germans money, they owe us," he told Reuters in an interview in his central Athens office, sitting in front of a line of campaign posters for his radical Syriza bloc, which placed second in last Sunday's Greek parliament election.
"The total they owe us is 162 billion euros without interest. If you add 3 percent interest, it's more than a trillion euros. But we can accept a haircut on the interest."
Glezos says Germany failed to pay compensation to Athens for the Nazi occupation and looting of mainland Greece from 1941-44, or to repay a forced loan extracted by the Third Reich.
Germany denies it still has outstanding debts for war-era reparations. The long-dormant issue has resurfaced this year with increasing vigor as the Athens government lurches closer to bankruptcy and Berlin clamors for Greece to impose harsh spending cuts to balance its books.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-greece-resistancebre85j0oo-20120620,0,6370837.story
Manolis Glezos, an 89-year-old leftist politicians famed for climbing up to the Acropolis in May 1941 and tearing down the Nazi occupiers' swastika flag, says Germany still owes Greece more in wartime reparations than the entire cost of the bailout.
"We don't owe the Germans money, they owe us," he told Reuters in an interview in his central Athens office, sitting in front of a line of campaign posters for his radical Syriza bloc, which placed second in last Sunday's Greek parliament election.
"The total they owe us is 162 billion euros without interest. If you add 3 percent interest, it's more than a trillion euros. But we can accept a haircut on the interest."
Glezos says Germany failed to pay compensation to Athens for the Nazi occupation and looting of mainland Greece from 1941-44, or to repay a forced loan extracted by the Third Reich.
Germany denies it still has outstanding debts for war-era reparations. The long-dormant issue has resurfaced this year with increasing vigor as the Athens government lurches closer to bankruptcy and Berlin clamors for Greece to impose harsh spending cuts to balance its books.