The German Debt?

[piggynose]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/10/germany-greece-second-world-war-reparations

is this fair?

[ichkeria]

No
Sorry but I thought an answer of some sort was overdue.

[ichkeria]

Sorry I meant : no the argument isn't' fair (!)

[DTCwordfan]

However, they dress it, a debt of £30k for every Greek man woman and child is unsustainable and now, with the package, this could go close to 40k....... there has to be debt restructuring - and 'toute suite' for the markets.

[DTCwordfan]

The Greek god Zeus was flying over a Greek island and noticed a naked German woman of some sixty years old, an ancient Emma Watson look-alike ( http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02940/Potter-Hermione-Me_2940490c.jpg) washing herself, so he swooped down and made passionate Athenian love to her.

Then he said, "In 9 months you shall have a child and you shall call him Alexis Tsipras!"

And the woman replied, "In nine months, you shall have an uncontrollable rash and you shall call it Herpes à Lagarde."

[jourdain2]

^^^^ Funny, DTC! :0) Actually I mentioned this point in a post several days ago - can't remember which.

[jourdain2]

^^^ The Greeks writing off German debt, that is - not the H a Lag.

[piggynose]

i´m a tad surprised how unpopular this thread was going to be. something current and relevant, yet 6 replies only.

[anotheoldgit]

How much does Germany owe us for two World Wars?

[sevenOP]

piggynose, morality sometimes ranks only as highly as those with the power* dictate.

The monthly loans( Besatzungsanleihe ) should have been resolved before now and has no bearing on the present Greek situation.

It is convenient˚ to keep the can of worms that is history, unopened, and the worm of reparations shrouded in this type of ostensible argument >>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sylvie-goulard/greece-wwii-reparations-germany_b_6652232.html

*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_with_Respect_to_Germany


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https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/ed-vulliamy-helena-smith/british-perfidy-in-greece-story-worth-remembering