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2015-03-12 Europe

Germany refuses to negotiate wartime reparations with Greece

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Posted by Fred 2015-03-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Iran could seek reparations for the burning of Persepolis (which was payback for burning Athens which was payback for burning Sardis).

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-12 00:31|| 2015-03-12 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Greece is threatening to seize Germany's assets or properties.

Catholic-Lutheran Germany at odds wid both the Greek and Russian Orthodox???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-12 02:13|| 2015-03-12 02:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Greek Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos went further....he was prepared to act on a 15-year-old Greek court ruling that permits the confiscation of German assets held in Greece in lieu of compensation.

How very communist of them. Will Italy be targeted next? Well, there was the issue of the Battle of Corinth in 146 BC

Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-12 03:42|| 2015-03-12 03:42|| Front Page Top

#4 And then there's the part where the Brits intervened in the Greek civil war after WW2.
And the time Turkish Sultan Mechmet II invaded and occupied most of the Balkans.
We should get the Poles in on this...

Posted by ed in texas 2015-03-12 07:41|| 2015-03-12 07:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Wait... haven't some researchers said Europeans have some Neanderthal DNA? Well, on behalf of the people driven to extinction, I hereby demand everything humanity owns in reparations.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-03-12 08:43|| 2015-03-12 08:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Greece is becoming a charming mix of European entitlement and Balkan methodology.

Posted by Grunter 2015-03-12 09:55|| 2015-03-12 09:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Blah blah blah, we're broke. Blah blah blah, you're rich. Blah blah blah, give us your money.

Same socialist story. Always trying to find more people's money.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-03-12 11:20|| 2015-03-12 11:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, where for art thou, Aris?

Posted by Raj 2015-03-12 11:31|| 2015-03-12 11:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh, where for art thou, Aris?

Ministry of Finance...

Posted by Steve White 2015-03-12 12:58|| 2015-03-12 12:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Baker Street

Posted by Shipman 2015-03-12 14:15|| 2015-03-12 14:15|| Front Page Top

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