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Greece Releases Graphic Footage From Nazi Occupation, Ups WWII Reparations Pressure
Having demanded EUR 278.7 billion from Germany for WWII reparations, which was quickly eschewed by Germany, Greece has decided to up the ante. As KeepTalkingGreece reports, Greek Defense Ministry has published a video with rare footage from the occupation of Greece by the Nazis during the World War II. Among others, the footage shows children suffering from malnutrition and emaciated adults, victims of the Great Famine during the Nazi occupation. The video is designed to provide context for the huge claim and the video voice-over states that the Enforced Loan by the Nazis was to blame for the mass starvation of estimated 300,000 people in Athens alone.
As KeepTalkingGreece reports, the video states:
“The agreement of 14. March 1942 foresaw that Greece paid to its occupiers 1.5 billion drachmas per month, a total of 3.5 billion USD, according to the Dollar value of 1938. The current value of the enforced loan is 54 billion euro without the interest. The agreement had to be implemented retrospectively as of 1.1. 1942.
The agreement was signed by Germany and Italy and Greece was notified later.
Two agreement modifications were added on 2. December 1942, with the effect that Germany had to start repaying the loan by April 1943.
Germany paid back two installments only.
In the Peace Paris Treaties (1947) Greece claimed 14 billion USD in war reparations, but the allies reduced the Greek claim down to 7.1 billion USD.”
Video: from the Archive of the Greek War Museum (Deputy Defense Minister Kostas Isychos had recently announced that ministry was in possession of the s-called Wehrmacht- Archive, an archive of 400,000 records of the German occupation, was currently in the process of digitization. therefore, I am not sure if the filmed material is from the Wehrmacht Archive.)
According to the video “Greece lost 13% of its population during the WWII. One part was lost in the battlefield, but the largest part due to Famine and the Nazis’ atrocities.”
The Great Famine, the period of mass starvation during the occupation of Greece by the powers of Axis – the fascist Italy and the Nazi Germany – hit especially the urban areas and some islands. The Great Famine was initiated by a large scale plunder by the Axis forces and as soon as the German army entered Athens 0n 27. April 1941. The Nazis confiscated fuel and all means of transportation, including fishing boats, preventing any transfer of food and other supplies and seized strategic industries. They proceeded with the wholesale and food looting , unemployment and hyperinflation skyrocketed, the black market flourished. The price of bread was increased 89-fold from April 1941 to June 1942.
During the winter of 1941-1942, the food supplies system had collapsed, the famine was in its peak and mortality exploded.
According to the records of the German army the mortality rate only in Athens reached 300 deaths per day during December 1941, while the estimates of the Red Cross were much higher, at 400 deaths while in some days the death toll reached 1,000.
Next to Famine, the atrocities committees by the Nazi occupiers against the locals ended up in the “murdering of residents in 89 cities and villages, they burned down more than 1,700 villages and killed many of their residents,” so the Defense Ministry video.
The Defense Ministry concludes its narration noting that “Italy paid its share in WWII reparations but Germany did not.”
Last year, Greece concluded a large scale investigation about its claim on WWII reparations to be paid by Germany. The new Greek government made the issue one of its top priorities. Deputy Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas declared the Greek claim was 278.7 billion euro.
Germany vehemently rejects the Greek claims even thought without legally convincing arguments.
Greece is expected to bring up the issue again and again with whatever tools it has in its hands. Until it decides to solve the issue in the courts.
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For the Germans, it appears this topic is not going away anytime soon
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Greece the new tribe?
I don't think so, there can only be one truely great victim in this world.
I feel a Hitler dubbed video coming on relating to war reparations
Greece acting like the fucking bitch some are married to.
Like elephants, they never forget.
Expect them to bring out some crap when they are on the losing end of an argument.
Besides Italy started it...
Has anyone compared this amount to the Greek owed target2 balances?
It wouldn't surprise me if a Greek default left more than this amount of target2 balances owed by Greece unpaid...
Ding! Ding! Ding!
I believe the Target2 amount is fairly similar, but owed to the ECB - not Germany itself. Although in the event of a Grexit and subsequnt default, the cost of re-capitalizing the ECB will have to fall mainly on Germany for obvious reasons.
My mother used to say "when poverty comes in the door, love flies out the window". Looks like some heads of states have this in common with women's hypergomous nature in general. If so, this relationship is going to get rocky.
The Greeks starved because the Allies blockaded the ports keeping the food out for fear of Germans getting some.
Next - Germany seeks reparations from the US for the war crimes committed against Dresden etc.
Get Madeleine Albright on the horn to see if she thinks it was worth it for the Germans.
While you have her on the horn, ask her if was worth it for the Jooze too. She should know.
I almost couldn't believe the latest report that Alexis Tsipras has now said he will hold his breath until he turns blue if new loans to Greece are not granted.
Somebody should tell Alexis that bad breath is better than no breath at all.
I'm not going to bag on Greece. At least they were too smart to vote for the Golden Dawn Nazi party. Unlike Americans who keep Nuland in power so she can rob us for Kiev Nazis.
You can keep your stupid bias. I had to deal with a racist Dixie methhead (meth is synonymous with white supremacy)
http://simpleorganiclife.org/drug-transformations/
I was robbed, physically attacked and harassed. Becuase her icky lover stole her cleaning supplies (which people make meth with). So gross. I could've sent her to the ER, the idiot deputies didn't offer me the opportunity to press charges...sorry. The worst part is that these people called racists are so ugly and gross and often stupid which is why they're racist in the first place.
Meth was invented in Japan and used during WWII by the Nazis. I seriously think that the Japanese actually "invented" meth and high fructose corn syrup to pay the U.S. back for Hiroshima.
US got Greece into the EU to keep Russia away from warm ports for energy exports?
I'm not vetting for some useless thuggie counterproductive and sucky not attractive Nazi party that hates me because of my DNA to oppose that.
Bitch Please.
Greece can accuse Germany all they want. Germany hasn't been inflicted with pain. Pitiful, cry babies. No wonder why they were afraid of the Jews.
"omg! they accusing us of cheating them!" Just like the Nazis accused the Jews (banks) of cheating them. Seriously, if you were "the chosen one"- you woudl've outsmarted them.
(You seriously have to be a real loser, fat slow and dumb to work without weapons in order to be afraid of a collective that doens't go camping. Even in tricked out trailers with the works by a nice well kept city bay).
So is the Nazi Ukraine stealing gas from Russia for some new gas chambers?
Seriously. An embarrassment to the human species, natural selection, the animal kingdom... waste of flesh and resources for people who can't manage money, count, do math and fend for themselves against a non-physically active collective. Because, like people give value to the currency. The human species fail because we haven't collectively figured out the last part.
What a fukin drug induced rant. go fuk off and do a Dr Phil
The Greeks are mostly entitlement state bums. Most of them deserve everything bad that's happening to them.
Loopy, can you even locate Greece on a map? Hint: it's the foundation of western democracy and much of its science, literature and philosophy, delivered to us through the Romans. I'm not Greek but have travelled there and found them hard working and very civilized.
Not so. I just watched "The Guns of Navarone" for like, the 47th time.
Gregory Peck likes them - good enough for me.
Common denominator: International financiers destroyed reichsmark creating the desperate conditions that led to hitlers' rise to power .... they are doing the same thing today except this time globally to everyone who doesn't come to heel in the nefarious monetary and society destruction schemes.
How do you know where those pictures actually came from? How do you know this isn't just more of the same fake propaganda? So far its all bullshit. If you aren't skeptical you're a moron.
rticle states 400000 records in archive.
the war caused famine and loss of people in every country.
13% is plausinle.
Greeks are being Greeks again. Always crying, complaining, and blaming others. Grow up.
The nazis were an abomination, but now that I see how corrupt, deceitful, unscrupulous, lying, cheating, defrauding, parasitic, thieving, etc the greeks truly are, I have ZERO empathy for the greeks, and I think an example should be made of them = crush them into economic ruin.
So the modern Germans (government and banks) are all on the up and up here? I assume you are talking governments and not an entire "peoples". The German gov is just as much all those things but with a vaneer of "respectability" afforded to by the likes of the scumbag EU/IMF etc. So why aren't you hoping they get crushed by this Greek play...what's good for the goose as they say?
FACTS
The greek vermin defrauded their way into the euro.
The greek vermin defrauded lenders, which includes ordinary individuals, not just banks and EU agencies, who own directly or indirectly (eg pension funds) the bonds THAT THE GREEKS OFFERED FOR SALE AS BORROWING, NOT GIFTING.
The greek government and society are horrifically corrupt, socialist, and crush entrepreneurs.
The greeks made their own cesspool, now they deserve to rot in it.
Look when i visit big Government or Vatican Buildings and Plazas... I feel humble. I should feel Humble & Small. Who cares how the built these Monuments, what the Labor was paid, or if Ethnic peoples were killed, maimed, indebted, or diseased from the work. Fuck it. These are whiners & complainers who don't think it is fair. s/
Buildings are big to instill this sense that leaders should have big compensation, are powerful, are very important, are a higher class, are a kind of royalty, are above the law, and that their work "Is God's Work".
What did I miss??
Yeah, Geek Proposal to Join the Eurozone (Eros Zone) (remember they were original EC founding members in 1959) had clear concerns with debt from the get-go. It wasn't a secret dumb ass. Then they hired a bank to make the audit look nice.
Sound familiar? Like sound like US Sub-Prime mortgages and the tranches of mortgages put into Derivatives even before the ink was dry. It is the same System as the US. In fact it would not work for the Eurozone without the false audit and accounting which Wall Street Provided.
R U Clear Yet?
No. You are a Patriot. You know Bankers are part of the MIC which are at the Top. U say we need the Bankers & Finance guys. Wrong. There is another way for currency, banking, government financing, military management (nationalization of base management & national laboratories & research at 1/3 the cost)
But if you want a career in the MIC or .gov you want to preserve your career. Of course you do.
You are impressed with big buildings aren't you?
Oh...it's the Prober (wink wink...likes to "probe") who usually hates anything not part (or challenging) of "the western system". I forgot. You have zero sympathy for Eastern Ukrainians, Greeks, Russians, Chinese, South Americans, ets etc. And you do stereotype and generalize...
it's all coming back to me now.
Next, Turkey should sue....Greece.
http://louisville.edu/a-s/history/turks/Greek%20Atrocities%20in%20Turkey...
It's not apples and oranges...but it's certainly not apples to apples. Germany has already paid others for one (see your IRS 1040 for one example in the US concerning taxation of reparations), but also the "loans". I'm not going to read the whole thing you posted...did Greece force Turkey to loan it billions of dollars and then never pay it back? If not, that is quite different.
Switzerland never gave up the Nazi Loot in their Bank Accounts either. I remember Swiss gave $1 Million to Red Cross and that was all they gave up.
But all through the war Germans were stashing cash, gold, jewels, art, and lots in Switzerland in order to contract for war goods, and to hoard for personal wealth.
Everybody should sue banksters.
Many should sue the US and other NATO countries. And so on.
However, Tsipras action is Politics since there's no Justice institution working properly in our World.
Yesterday it was Hitler backed by the banksters.
Today are the banksters backed by themselves.
Consequences are alike.
Endless shit.
The Greeks still can't feed themselves ! BTW Get to fishing .... the Jews couldn't go fishing in the concentration camps .... and it was a lot colder .... this whiney crap is undignified .... and very common !
Germany doesn't owe anything .... especially when Obama won't give them their gold .... that's the ticket .... tell them you will earmark the gold for reparations .... then if you get it .... pay in fiat or bonds .... or just reneg on the extorted promise .... which isn't valid anyway .... tough love is my call !
Hit up Italy for reparations ! WTF
Same as the US, and everywhere else. The real enemy is your own political class and their enablers; everything else is just distraction.
i here tel aviv gets 5 subs from germany for free
the kraut pays compensation until 2070
prison sentence for the goy that questions.
compensation for the russian should run to 5 trillion.
the yank must compensate the kraut for eisenhowers rhineland million plus camp deaths.
the demonic brit 2 trillion to germany for fire bombs on cities
the compensation commitee need to be purged of jewishers for financial stability
Sorry haven't been reading you stuff as your English take too much time to sober up.
But look the USA displaced Morality, Ethics, and Learning Philosophy/Logic with Infrastructure.
Wow.
We have Roads, Highways, Cable TV, Cable-Satelite-Dish TV & Internet, we have of buildings, big institutions, big collages, big universities, big capitalist corporate programs to education our people, mass disinformation, mass corruption of free press & K-12...
You could say USA is like Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Contemporary EU, Colonial Europe,... this is all government control. Same-Same.
Liberty is what I want to call you back to. Tony.
In WW I Era and later too. Morality, Ethic, Philosophy was a very high value. You can see this at work in third world countries today.
But maybe there was a great threat in the 20th Century: Man thinking for himself. Man learning his Natural Rights. And it was never government given rights since we can't expect government to teach citizens what their rights are....
Natural Rights. The highest level. But you had to anchor education in Philosophy.
If you don't teach the common people natural rights & philosophy it will be CO-OPED by Elites, Powerful Families, Employers, Capitalists, and those that want low wages for the skilled and unskilled labor force.
USA is the bottom of the scale if we took a survey. And we should take this survey.
I expect (Bias) that Latin American Countries & Europe score higher on tests of knowledge of Natural Rights, Ethics, Morals, or... just ideas that support friendships, relationships, families, ...values that support relationships, individualism, self development and oppose dictatorial government.
obvious holohoax. ww2 never even happened.
fuck you nazi malakas!
There must be some Reckoning. Logic Fails in all our countries, in our politics, in our free press, in our HISTORY, in our K-12 Education Text Books. Conspiracy: Text Books are those in which Patriarchs and Oligarchs have Censored. Most K-12 Books should be just called by Subject Names not as censored, provided Text.
Fuck the Frau's NWO bankster-run Fourth Reich masquerading as the EU.
Government, all governments, being nothing more than criminal syndicates of theft and violence, can only produce four things:
1) Poverty
2) Misery
3) Death
4) Lies
All governments are occupiers of the underlying country of people and the land they inhabit. The only variable is the rate and degree at which each government will foist the above ailments to the country it is occupying.
The banksters need to repay us.
The greatest trick of the devil was not convincing people he does not exist, but convincing people that government and banks were their servants.
Germans are and always have been pigs. Study some history that hasn't been re-written by so called scholars and their civilization is blatant with atrosities against other nations. Germasns are similar to muslims. The only good ones are dead ones and that includes their deluted decendants through rape and inter-marriage. The seed is still there and should be destroyed.
You must have experience with German Sex or Rape. I've been there and never saw what you are talking about.
What are the Mating Practices of Germans and can they be worse than English, Belgian, Dutch, or French??
I'm from USA and see only something of cultural entropy in USA: Philosophically, Language, Social Structure, Logic, Politics, Sexual Mores, Fascism, Lust for War.
Of course it is planned out by a few and taken advantage of by Capitalist of all kinds: information control, press control, history control, coup on US science.
Late Edit:
Aren't Franks, Normans, Dutch, Belgians, Scandinavians, Vikings, and most Britains: ALL Germanic People??? By Linguistics, Culture, Technology, and by DNA??
bullish for BMW
Atrocity porn is weak. Default or fuck off
good move by the Greeks as provides CON-TEXT For EU-NATO-USA Saber Rattling to Russia and Russian Sanctions.
"The video is designed to provide context for the huge claim..."
And what World War Does to the Citizens who after all take the brunt of Suffering while Elites, Bankers, and Politicians attempt to Profit and Enhance their Careers.