This is a compulsory loan to cover the costs of occupation
Germany Greece to pay 11 billion euros. The money allegedly owed to Athens by forced loans from the Second World War. As reported on Monday, the newspaper Handelsblatt, at the disposal of the Greek weekly To Vilma last week was a confidential report submitted by the Greek government.
As explained by the newspaper, in 1942 the Greek central bank has provided the Reichsbank forced loan of $ 476 million Reichsmarks for cover the costs of occupation. Earlier this year, the Greek government has formed a special committee to flesh out the potential financial claims against Germany, related to the events of World War II.
Read also : No one keeps. Greece and the euro zone will manage without each other Greek politicians and unions, representing the interests of victims of the occupation, said “Deutsche Welle”, constantly demanding reparations from Germany for the atrocities committed during the war. Berlin, however, rejects these claims. Among other things, politicians in Athens to impose the German claims on the forced loan of 1942 in the amount of $ 3.5 billion (in 1938 prices). It was assumed that this loan will be returned after the war, but in 1953 the term of payment Athens German reparations was postponed until the signing of the “official peace treaty” between the parties. In 1960, Greece received from Berlin reparations in the amount of 115 million marks.
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