Global Post: Greece is planning to pursue WWII reparations from Germany, the country tasked with paying off most of Greece’s240 billion-euro debt.
The Greek Finance Ministry has compiled a report that includes documents from more than six decades in support of the claim. The report will be submitted to Greece’s legal advisers and Athens will be left to decide how to officially proceed.
The precise amount of the claim has not been released.
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“We will exhaust every means available to arrive to a result,” Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos told lawmakers.
“We are pressing on with all the necessary measures,” Avramopoulos also said. He called for “the restoration of justice and truth about the suffering of the Greek people during the difficult years of the occupation…a difficult period during which the Greek people suffered, went hungry and were looted like no other country.”
Germany claimed it has already paid reparations owed to Greece for occupying the country during WWII.
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