[GREEK LANGUAGE BOOK]
Manolis Glezos, a Greek left wing politician and writer famed for climbing up to the Acropolis in May 1941 and tearing down the Nazi occupiers’ swastika flag, says Germany still owes Greece more in wartime reparations than the entire cost of the bailout. Even if the German debt to Greece was just one deutsche mark, Germany has the legal, historical and above all the moral obligation to repay Greece.
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Athens News, 2 April 2012
A statement circulated by the German foreign ministry, through which the issue of WW2 reparations is classed as non-existent and as a matter that no longer has reasons to be discussed, has naturally created plenty of reaction.
The most vocal, has been that coming from the direction of veteran Leftist figurehead and wartime resistance icon Manolis Glezos who, together with the deceased Apostolos Santas, secretly climbed atop the Acropolis Hill in central Athens and took down the Swastika in the early morning hours of May 31, 1942 – a defiant and extraordinarily symbolic act of resistance at the beginning of the Axis occupation of Greece.
Glezos said the German foreign ministry statement was, "a lie and infuriating".
He said it was ungrounded historically because it ignores the decision of the 19-member Allied Commission of Paris in 1946, which was contained in the Paris Reparations Agreement of 1946, under which Germany is obliged to pay 7.1 billion US dollars to Greece (at 1938 rates), in other words, 108 billion euros today without interest. Glezos further said that Germany ignores a 3.5-billion-dollar (1938 nominal value) "forced loan" to Nazi occupation forces, which would be 54 billion euros today.
"Not a single Deutschmark, drachma or euro" has been paid to Greece towards those debts, he said, despite the fact that Germany has paid reparations to all the other countries with which it had been at war, without exception.
"There is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity," Glezos stressed. (AMNA)
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