article_snippet.sent: ’ Greece Greece demanded more than £200billion in compensation from Germany for Nazi atrocities during the Second World War.
article_snippet.sent: The radical left Syriza party says Germany owes Greece nearly 279billion euros, or £204billion to compensate The radical left Syriza party for looting and war crimes.
article_snippet.sent: Panos Kammenos said Greece had obtained ‘stunning evidence’ to support Greece massive claims for reparations.
article_snippet.sent: Panos Kammenos said Greece had obtained records held by the US military that review the extent of damage to private and public property during the Nazi occupation.
article_snippet.sent: Greece suffered a brutal occupation at the hands Adolf Hitler’s forces in 1941.
article_snippet.sent: More than 40,000 people are believed to have starved to death in Athens alone.
article_snippet.sent: According to our calculations, the debt linked to German reparations is 278.7bn euros,’ Mr Tsipras told a parliamentary committee investigating responsibility for Greece’s debt crisis.
article_snippet.sent: Berlin paid 115m deutschmarks to Athens in 1960 in compensation – a fraction of the Greek demand.
article_snippet.sent: Greece says this did not cover payments for damaged infrastructure, war crimes and the return of the forced loan.
article_snippet.sent: Syriza politicians have frequently blamed Germany for the hardship suffered by Greeks under the tough bailout conditions imposed by international lenders.
article_snippet.sent: Ministers have floated the idea of seizing German assets in Greece to compensate the families of victims of Nazi war crimes.
article_snippet.sent: A poll carried for Greek radio found more than 80 per cent of Greeks agreed with the pusuit of Nazi war debt claims.