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Germany Slams "Stupid" Greek Demands For "Incomprehensible" €278 Billion In Reparations
Yesterday we reported that in what may have been an attempt to stun the world, if not so much Germany, with the law of large numbers, Greece calculated that Germany owes it a whopping €278 billion in World War II reparations, or about a third of what Germany reported was its GDP in the fourth quarter. Unfortunately for Greece, Germany does not appear to be rushing to wire the funds. As Reuters reported earlier today, Germany's economy minister had one word for the Greek demand: "stupid."
From Reuters:
Sigmar Gabriel, who is economy minister and German vice chancellor, called the demand "stupid", saying Greece ultimately had an interest in squeezing a bit of leeway out of its euro zone partners to help Athens overcome its debt crisis.
"And this leeway has absolutely nothing to do with World War Two or reparation payments," said Gabriel, who leads the Social Democrats (SPD), junior partner in the ruling coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.
Berlin is keen to draw a line under the reparations issue and officials have previously argued that Germany has honored its obligations, including a 115-million deutsche mark payment made to Greece in 1960. A spokeswoman for the finance ministry said on Tuesday that the government's position was unchanged.
Other Germans were likewise unimpressed:
Eckhardt Rehberg, a budget expert for the conservatives, accused Athens of deliberately mixing the debt crisis and reform requirements imposed by Greece's international creditors with the issue of reparations and compensation.
"For me the figure of 278.7 billion euros of supposed war debts is neither comprehensible nor sound," he told Reuters. "The issue of reparations has, for us, been dealt with both from a political and a legal perspective."
It may not be sound but from the standpoint of the Greeks it is completely comprehensible: with their back against the wall, and with sovereign and financial bankruptcy breathing down the Greeks' neck, the country may as well go for the Hail Mary pass: who knows it just may find enough supportive voices in Germany to reach the endzone.
And, to our surprise, not one but two political parties in Germany are willing to help Greece out with this particular desperation "pass" because members of both the Greens and the far-left Linke party have said that Berlin should cough up some of the €10.3 billion in wartime loan repayment.
Both 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.
Berlin and Athens should "jointly and amicably" take any other claims to the International Court of Justice, Sarrazin said.
Groth went further, saying: "If you look at Greece's debt and the European Central Bank's bond purchases every month, it puts the figure of 278.7 billion euros into perspective."
She said the German government should, at the very least, talk to Athens about how it came up with that figure.
"The German government's categorical 'Nein' certainly cannot be allowed to stand. That's disgraceful 70 years after the end of the war," Groth said.
It can't but it will, because with Frau Merkel it is all about keeping stern appearances. However, just in case Greece needed encouragement to continue the pursuit of this ultimately futile line of attack, the two German opposition parties have certainly provided it. Then again, the final outcome, one that depends entirely on Angela Merkel's decision, is clear. And sadly it now looks like Greece will spend even more time pursuing this lost cause with a final outcome that - at least for Greece - does not look good, than focusing what little energy and focus it has left on what it shoudl have been doing over the past 5 years - reforming.
Finally, let's not forget that this is Europe, where a little under a century ago, it was again the issue of German reparations thrust upon a far weaker Germany, that led to not only the rise of German hyperinflation and the rise of Adolf Hilter, but maybe even more importantly, led to the creation of that all important entity, the one which is the true committee that runs the world, the Bank of International Settlements, in whose Tower of Basel, every two months, unelected academics sit down and decided the fate of the world.
One can't possibly imagine what outcomes the question of German war reparations will lead to on this particular occasion.
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Those Nazis, what can you expect from them?
Germany is telling Greece to come and get it. Greece can come to Germany together with Russian and Chinese troops to Germany via WW3.
God willing, I'll meet you all on the other side.
Germany and Russia should split Greece..and in doing so leave their resignation for NATO.
RIPS
Sardinia should demand reparations from Greece for their suffering in the Punic Wars!
When you see a country making silly demands like this, you can understand how desperate they truly are.
Not to worry. Goldman to the rescue again. What they say is.
Goldman to make another bridge loan to Germany to give Greece the money to pay previous bridge loan.
Well well..... Since the topic has come up, my kin worked under the whip in the Slave Pits of Lithuania.
Ru$$ia owes us BIGTIME.
278 billion euros? That's child's play. Italy better pony up reparations for the Romans invading, enslaving, and pillaging Germania. What's 2000 years of interest and principal all paid in gold for that clusterfuck work out to I wonder?
Well the Germanic tribes did sack Rome in 410 AD and again arguably in 1527.
Looking forward to Greek war reparation demands from Turkey.
Germany is not serious. When they deploy 10 divisions of Panzers on the Greek border (or 4 planeloads of Para-Banksters) then Athens should worry.
German army status is disgraceful, Greek army would probably beat it to a pulp... if it had enough gas to run its own stuff :p
That without considering good old fat Göring.
Romans never actually governed Germany. The Danube and the Rhine were Rome's northern limits of Empire. Gaul was mostly France, modern day Belgium,Switzerland, the Netherlands.
Get you historical analogies straight.
Parts of it though. And I guess that is what he is refering to. Southern parts and the southwest of todays Germany were once governed by Romans - Colonia Agrippina, Augusta Treverorum, Mogontiacum, Castra Regina, Bonna. These are all major cities in Germany - some of them were inhabited by non-Germanic tribes at the time - like the Treveri. Nonetheless - not all of Germany was governed by Romans. Famously the Romans were crushed 9 AD in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (although the real location of the battle is closer to the Kalkriese Hill). And then came the revenge operations, the Limes and yada yada yada. Unlike the rest of Western Europe - Germany never was totally conquered or governed by the Romans. So you're both correct.
Greece is never going to repay anybody in the EU. It's obvious that they're just messin' with the Germans now for the LULZ. They don't expect the Germans to pay - they just wanted to see them go ballistic again. The Germans keep falling for it.
they will pay. A strong army and A-weapons are the only argument not to pay your debts.
Spot on ! Next step will be: The Greeks declare juridical compensatio , declare themselves aqquited for the most part of their credits and demand some changes (couple of millions) from the germans.
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How much have the Jews extracted from Germany in the name of the phony holocaust? Read the Holocaust Industry by Norman Finkelstein.
well, if you include all the blackmail and other shenangans related to the holohoax, it has to be in the trillions.
Now, how much reparations have the jew bolsheviks paid Russia for the true holocaust they perpetrated there? How many Spielberg movies have been made about that true holocaust? A big fat ZERO.
When will US and its allies pay war reparations to Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan for wars of aggression against those nations and the millions who died?
When will US and its allies pay war reparations to Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan for wars of aggression against those nations and the millions who died?
When will US and its allies pay war reparations to Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan for wars of aggression against those nations and the millions who died?
When will US and its allies pay war reparations to Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan for wars of aggression against those nations and the millions who died?
I remember someone posting that exact question before.
4 times?
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The next FUCKING BS thing Greece will pull is to tell the EU that they can collect what they say Greece owes from Germany.
This is total horseshit as everyone knows.
No world court lawsuit or award of compensation, just a big fucking Greek decree.
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it's funny and it isn't. Obviously Mr. Gabriel is a finance geek and not a cultural advisor. The Greeks are very dramatic by nature. The proper way to have responded would have been with more theater and then a quiet word in private. By calling the Greeks 'stupid' over this has very much insulted ALL of the Greek people.
Putin is probably chuckling today over his oatmeal. "Glopny Nemenski!"
I'm sick and tired of the posturing, rhetoric and can-kicking. How long are the European sheeple to put up with this endless debt-trafficking and macreconomic rape? THESE CON MEN ARE STRIPPING YOUR NATIONS BARE, AND YOU'RE FOCUSED ON THE OTHER VICTIMS? GET OFF YOUR ASS NOW AND TAKE BACK YOUR COUNTRIES.
Nein rocks...
I'm having a bit of trouble deciding what to wear to the end of the world. Does green clash with nuclear detonations.......??
You'll want white for its anti-flash properties. Unless you're in a metropolitan area, where blackface and an NBA team jacket might increase your chances of getting out alive.
Until you get out into the country, where such attire will, no doubt, turn into a severe liability. Best hole up in the suburbs somewhere.
boston.
Greek FinMin says that Greek authorities (I guess auditors hahaha) have compiled 50,000 (!!!!) files going back 70 years (!!!!) and calculated this ridiculous number.
We have all seen the file storage room of the Greek Fin Min. Hard to believe they found anything, let alone 50,000 files going back 70 years.
How about these auditors make an effort to find taxes among Greeks?
Greeks have officially jumped the shark.
Grexit already.
Isn't it funny how they can do financial forensics of this kind, but not do the same for tax evaders.
Oh, the Irony, the Hypocrisy.
Grexit could very well mean the end of the Euro. The Greek can build on a long history of playing political games. They are not in a rush. They are looking for alternatives and other partners: Russia and China, using their geopolitical strategically important position as negotiation. If they default they can start anew while creditors stand with empty hands. They just need to make sure that somebody else will buy their olives and come and visit their beaches. China wants their harbours, Russia wants to bring gas via Turkey and Greece to Western Europe, bypassing Ukraine. Yesterday Turkey, Greece, Macedonia (FYROM), Serbia and Hungary signed an agreement to that effect.
The only thing that might keep the Euro and even the EU together is Greek debt forgiveness. Greece will never be able to pay back its debts. It will cripple their economy and their recovery. But the Troika -I mean 'institutes'- wants to keep the perpetual debt machine going.
Greece's "geopolitical" position is highly exaggerated
look, Iran is back in play.. the world is always changing
Germany has gold .. supposedly in some vault in NY or London. Doesn't matter if its there or not. Those responsible don't care to check. It is viable on paper as a means to create money. Couple that with German GDP and you got a good basis for a solid currency.
Germany sells more and more product into China. Who really cares about Greece? The debt writeoffs will create headaches but nobody in Germany will lose their house or go hungry over it.
The Russians already have a base in Syria. Suppose they get a few bases in Greece and Cyprus? They then can close off the whole MED, Black Sea and access to the Suez canals. The Americans have Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo. Their biggest base outside the US which can be seen from space. That was one of the real reason for the war with Serbia over Kosovo: to create a camp that if needed can be used to control the Black Sea. Well, Russia took Crimea and if they would get bases in Greece then Camp Bonsteel once of a sudden looks quite silly.
Since you´re a geostrategic superbrain, would you mind telling me the purpose of a army camp in Kosovo to control the Black Sea? Have a look at a map before you answer.
he could as well explain why a GreXit would be a bad thing for the EUR as such
It is the main ENTRY POINT for the Drugs that arrive from Afganistan and then easily distributed in Europe by the Albanian Mafia to provide real CASH for the Banksters and also Keep drugged and dumb the European population.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS A BONUS.
Geography:
Maps n' shit.
No - they did not compile those documents.
These are documents which were compiled by the german Wehrmacht during the occupation (and left behind), so trust them to be correct and complete down to the last gold tooth.
However, the demand is ridiculous.
Greece joint the European Community (EC) in 1981.
Since then, Germany put about 200.000.000.000€ MORE INTO the European Coffers, than we got out of them.
Greece, on the other hand, received 100.000.000.000€ MORE OUT of the European Coffers, than they put into them. With this money they should have modernized their infrastructure, economy, agriculture. Which they did'nt.
Case closed.
Suppose that is all correct .
How come Germany does not Extradite to Greece Christoforakos (Son of Nazi collobarator)? The main Agent for Ziemens that Bribed most of the Political class?
OH! the Greeks have to put order in their country, when it is run by their common BOSS the US of A and their Wall Street Ultimate Dominatrix?
Any of that happening without bloodshed by any chance?
As Greece was plunged into Civil War immediately after the WAR in 1944.
There we had the beautiful sight of Nazi collabarators fighting together WITH the British against the Democratic and Communist forces of EAM ELAS. While the at the same time the British were still fighting against the Germans.
When you read history some of the real facts boggle the mind.
OH AND BY THE WAY THE FORCED WAR TIME LOAN . Hitler Himself signed it. They also paid 2 payments towards it. The 330.000 Dead that starved in Athens was the direct effect of that forced loan and subsequent impounding of food supplies.
By the way the British still owed the Greeks 30 million Sterling in Gold for the First World War. Naturally it was NEVER PAID.
The Greek state also still pays Not theirs BUT........ the Turkish Sultan's Debts.
Do you still think that the Greeks were ever INDEPENDENT?????????
How come Germany does not Extradite to Greece Christoforakos (Son of Nazi collobarator)? The main Agent for Ziemens that Bribed most of the Political class?
Oh. Yes. Of course! I hear he had to waterboard them to take the money, did he not? Pull out the nails from fingers and feet, to make them take the money. And where all of this did not help, he had to send in the dentist from "The Marathon Man" to make them take the money. Of course.
Don't blame the germans. Get your money from UK and the zionist bankers who are responsible for WW2. Don't blame Russia -they were run by the Georgian butcher Stalin and the jewish Bolshvik Rothschild banksters, who in turn controlled and owned the drunken , half Jew psychopath Churchill. If germany had any balls, they would defend themselves against such accusations. Germany and Greece need to team together and bolt the EU and join up with the Russians and Chinese -break the banksters backs -weaken them so someday the American sheeple can wake up and kick their sorry asses out of our country -before it's too late.
"We, the successors of the generation that murdered, raped and pillaged a continent, think that this matter has been dealt with after giving Greece peanuts in the 60s and after not fulfilling obligations agreed to in the 90s while we ourselves received debt forgiveness in the 50s".
There, I fixed it for them.
In other news, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia (FYROM for the sensitive Greek commentators), Serbia and Hungary signed some sort of agreement for the construction of Turkish Stream which will deliver Russian gas to Europe, bypassing Ukraine.
got any links that confirm the story?
Don't forget the Russian pipeline on the ocean floor under the Baltic Sea going straight from Russia to Germany. It's halfway completed.
it is completed since 7 years.
or it is not 2015 now?
That pissed off Donald Tusk and other Poles.
I love it whem the Poles get Pissed ! Those nouveau riche germanophile wannabes !
It is completed
Joe A I suggest you have a little read of "After the Reich", the Brutal History of the Allied Occupation, by Giles MacDonogh. Its about 550 pages of well researched real history not Hollywood fantasy about who really got murdered ,raped and pillaged , then tell the successors of THAT generation that THEY owe anybody anything
Well, if what's past is past let's forgive all Greek debt and assist them in transitioning back to the Drachma and Sovereignty.
Those German's are so stubborn.
I suppose they will try to tell us it was all a hoax.
You know, Holohoax, like they sell here.
So Mr dsty troll I suppose the Enigma code transcripts are a hoax too , you know the ones the British code breakers busted and were listening in on , you no know the ones where German high command were telling the camp commanders to save as many lives as possible from the typhus outbreaks ! Its game over for the deliberate vested interest lies of the Holohoax, we know now that Nurenberg was show trials for propaganda purposes along with torture to obtain "confessions" and bribery i.e "your wife and children live if you tell us what the public muppets must be told. So just give it up already this story is finally busted , nobody has to "sell" it , the truth is out there .
Sucks not having a Pot to Piss in...
The Krupps should owe billions.
I have always thought Mr Burns appearance was based on Alfried Krupp.
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Hey this is not such a hair brained idea after all. This could be a great opportunity for the American MIC to sell bankrupt Greece billions of $ worth of weapons (via WS financing).
Greece attacks Germany. MIC and WS will make an absolute killing (no pun intended).
SO I guess Germany had to pay the Jews for 70 years(they JUST finished paying them last year) for WWII but the Greeks are another matter all together different.
Heck, they could have spared 6 million for the ovens too.
That would go over big.
It's just a few crumbs, right?
The number '6 million' in the newspapers from 1915 to 1938 (20 min.) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJ_7vJIuUc
Yeah the German tax herd has been paying thru the nose for something that did,nt happen as told and to add insult to injury they were,nt even alive when this mythical thing did,nt happen ! How about a refund for this bullshit ?
Does this mean that Greece is going to default?
This is just senseless stupidity by the Greek Government. Regardless of everything else that's ridiculous about it, even if Greece was somehow to get E278 Billion it would just waste it on lining pockets, public sector non-jobs and imported goods in a week and be back asking for more the following day. It crazy talk like this that makes you realise that the Tsipiras / Varoufakis act really haven't a clue what they're doing and they're not fit to be part of a currency or any other union.
Greece is embarrasing the hell out of the EU. They will not stop and are getting more creative. It's like an evil divorce on steroids. Usually someone steps in and separates the two parties and stops the nastiness. Not happening here. Reminds me of the movie with Michael Douglas "The Roses" or something like that.
Curious how Jews received total compensation and continue to do so .. based on inflated lies and a con to define all cons in the hiistory of history... but real victims like Greece and Poland among others are shown the finger.
"...including a 115-million deutsche mark payment made to Greece in 1960."
They should have invested that in the Dow,SP or the Dax.
Dear Greeks,
World War II was provoked by Jews.
World War two was fomented by England.
World War II was financed by jewish banks.
Jews have to pay it all and I hope, they will pay it one day.
Dear Greeks, why don't you bother the jews, Britons, Americans? Why do you bother Germans?
Dear Greeks,
What a mess you have got yourselves into. You have nobody but yourselves to blame for shithole you have fallen into.
From: one happy muth fuka who is sooooooooooooooooo happy he wasn't born a greek.
Greeks have to enforce the payment from Germans.
Greeks do have an army, don't they?
Greeks should invade Germany and take their share.
/sarcasm off.
Only a military power can enforce repayment of any debt.
I derived the above statement from studying the history of the last 5000 years until today.
Ah Jano my brother , problem is Germany is still occupied by agents of Zion . If a majority of the German people knew the truth THEY would be demanding reparations off just about everybody who helped force them back into the shackles of international zionist usurers by gang raping , pedophiling, murdering and burning alive the civilian population of Greater Germany. But a majority of Germans have been "educated" to be "self-haters"
Pay them in reichsmark. Maybe they'll get the hint.
Yes... with the billions secretly printed in the last few years preparing the EU exit, it should be an easy operation...
What would make much more sense is for Greece to sue Goldman Sachs for fitting them into the Euro- this would have the advantages of being based in reality and be a very popular move.
The Greek claim is obviously legal and maybe still enforceable. Germany would get into difficulties if Greece would take visible steps to pursue the claim. That is apparently a realistic threat to Germany and certainly a political nightmare that could turn into a Waterloo.
Are you a lawyer? Do you know International Law, the tenets of war reparations, the specificities of the WW2 case, the reparations that Germany has already paid? Or you just speak out of your ass when saying "The Greek claim is obviously legal and maybe still enforceable"?
I'll bet it's the later.
"International Law" - does not exist. Just ask any International Law professor.
Good idea cwsuisse and if that is true then Germany can make legal and realistic claims against Britain (Dresden etc) , USA ( mass murder of POW,s) Ex-Soviet and USA and Britain (mass gang rape of women and CHILDREN) , want me to go on ? Go right ahead , OPEN this can of worms .
Took the words out of ma mouth. Churchill's advisor Frederick Lindemann - a "German" Jew - devised a complex optimization program whereby 80% of Germany's building infrastructure could be destroyed by systematic carpet bombing. Dresden was one result of the plan's implementation. As his biographer Max Hastings observed 'I also believe he hoped 80% of his erstwhile countrymen would be buried under the ensuing rubble but he was too genteel to say so".
would greece just say screw u already geez get it over with u cant quit and stay employed at the same time leave the f ing euro and join up with russia duh
If the Germans are paying Israel reparations for crimes against Jews done in WWII, then why shouldn't Greece demand reparations either? After all, the latter's claim is more legally sound, if at least because the beneficiary is more clear, whereas in Israel many people do not descend from those who have suffered from German WWII actions but nevertheless benefit from these reparations.
The answer is simple. Jews are not Greeks. Jews rule the world via the international banking system. Greeks rule nothing, not even their own country, so why pay them?
HATE FACTS!
Tsipras, visiting Moskow today, could assign the Greek claim over about 300 billion Euros to Russia for the purpose of debt collection. After analysis of the legality of the claim (which is quite legal I recently read) Moscow could accept the assignment and transfer the claim to its debt collection department headed by Sergei Kuschugetowitsch Schoigu.
Yeah then the Russians can pay their share of Soviet Bolshevic attrocities to the German civilian population 1944-47. Jeeez you,re full of GREAT ideas today Swissy
Ja, we just had an anniversary... Der Kampf an der Südostfront beginnt in der Morgendämmerung des 6. April,.. https://youtu.be/oqZ0982j3hc?t=1m19s
more Wochenschau...
08. Bulgarian troops enter Kavala, Greece. - 09. General Kurt Student awards German paratroopers, Greece. - 10. German engineering units to remove debris in the canal of Corinth, Greece. - 11. German paratroops capture the city Canea (Chania) in Crete, Greece.... https://youtu.be/qN2nPiOIntM
Transporting supplies from Greece to Africa... https://youtu.be/HUMqmU9P-kY?t=2m2s
The Germans are undoubtedly a great nation, but governed allways by idiots. With the only exception - Bismarck.
Amen to that
True dat, Adolph,s heart may have been in the right place and undoubtedly he was a genuine patriot and truely cared for his people in his authoritarian way ( he was a survivor of extreme physical abuse by his father) and a great many German people loved him for reviving their country and giving them their pride back and for giving the "finger" to the occupation "tribe". But he made some serious mistakes number one being he should have left the German military experts run the war . Number one rule of history you dont invade Russia if you can help it and definitely not half way thru summer.
The greeks keep astonishing me how corrupt, incompetent, unscrupulous, deceitful, defrauding, thieving, and parasitic they are. I used to go to greece for winter holidays, but I will NEVER go again. I hope the greeks become a case study in misery and despair, entireley self-made and well-deserved.
trolling again?
Why would anyone expect a bunch of Nazis to admit to any wrong doing. Just look at the Queer Nazis in this country lead from the White House trying to bankrupt an innocent pizza maker.
Talking about "stupid " . Expecting the Greek people to pay a debt impossible to repay and expecting the population to be enslaved for generations .
" STUPID " expecting that at debt incurred by sobterfuge , tricks , bank scandals LIBOR , rigging of currencies , loans , FOREX , Golman Sachs and IMF machinations and incompetent and corrupt politicians would be repaid by a population .
Was there any lesson in what happend in ICELAND ?
" STUPID ' is expecting that after treating Greece like a PARIA state nothing wil change in the geopolitical alignenments ..
" STUPID " is the belief that EU modus operandi should not change . The so called uneclected Soviet EU leaders after showing their true allegiances ( BANK and Zionists ) , if they continue on the same track regarding sovereign debt ..... in a few years will not have any more members of the EU to tyrannize .
Italy debt at the monent is 132 % of PIL and it is staying up becasue of extra low interest rates ......
eh? who is expecting Greece to repay that debt? you seem a bit confused
what the creditor nations expect from Greece it two things:
first, repayment of the IMF loans (yes, they do take precedence before all others)
second... a balanced budget
but for propaganda purposes it's convenient for SYRIZA to point to the debt as such instead to the budget, because balancing a budget is against every fibre of their ideology
three quarters of this Greek debt is in the hands of a few european nations that bailed out Greece and don't expect any interest on it until 2023
but go on and talk about "the debt". lol, as if it would ever be paid
Germans to the Greeks: "Molon labe!"
There is only one specialist in collecting war reparations and that is Israel. 70 years after WWII they still (rightly ot wrongly) find things to claim for.
If Greece had any sense they would subcontract the task to Israel in return for 20% of what they can squeeze out of Germany.
Having said that things have worked out quite well. Greece will not collect from Germany and Germany will not collect from Greece.
In private all Germans with clout admit that Greece will never pay her debt and the rest is just for public consumption.
Yes, newly minted Holocau$t™ survivors keep emerging every day, hands out for restitution. Oy vey, the sufferink!
(wrongly) . fixed it for you just in case you are historically or morally challenged or just plain not up to speed with current info
Everyone should be in favor of war reparations no matter what nation is asking to be compensated...maybe if the warmongers were held accountable EVERY nation would think twice before starting a war...there would be consequences and we wouldnt lose our sons, daughters, mothers, fathers etc..... in wars....
so everyone lets get our kabesas out of our koulitos and THINK!..
and for the posts equating WWII to ancient history...IDIOTS
You're a thief. The "reparations" definitely won't be paid by the perps, they will be paid by their current victims, Their prior victims are all dead, so who are you "compensating", for what?