Does Germany owe Greeks billions of euros in World War II reparations for the damages and the enforced loan during the occupation of the country by the Nazis? So far, Berlin has vehemently rejected any Greek claims.
However, as Keep Talking Greece reports, two German researchers, who dug into the documents of the dispute, have discovered and calculated that the German state owes Greece 185 billion euros.
Of this not even a 1% has been paid to Greece.
In their book “Reparation debt. Mortgages of German occupation in Greece and Europe” publishers Karl Heinz Roth, a historian, and Hartmut Rübner, a researcher, unfold the documents of the dispute and come to the conclusion that the reparations issue was not solved in 1960, as Berlin has been claiming.
The authors make a special reference to former Chancellor Helmut Kohl who managed to avoid reparation payments when the two German states were reunified in 1990 and the 2+4 Treaty.
Before the reunification, Kohl was claiming that reparation demands were premature. After the reunification, he claimed they were too late.
Roth and Rübner now plea for the recognition of the German “reparations debt” towards Greece.
So far, Greece has tabled two proposals: one referred to 287billion euros, and one, the official one to 162 billion euros.
Perhaps Germany allowing Greece to write off its TARGET2 net claims would be a good start...
More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-1...an-researchers
There are too many wars brewing inside the EU, sooner or later one of them will boil over and then they will all break out.
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