article_snippet: Germany should pay reparations to Greece for ‘serious wrongs’ by the Nazis, members of Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition said last night.
article_snippet: The German Chancellor has angrily rejected demands from Greek ministers for Berlin to pay £240billion in compensation for Nazi atrocities during the Second World War.
article_snippet: Senior figures in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition partner in government  have united with the Green Party to declare Germany should compensate Greece to the tune of billions of pounds for wartime Nazi atrocities .
article_snippet: It is about recognising that us Germans have committed serious wrongs in Greece.
article_snippet: About 250,000 Greeks died during the brutal Nazi occupation.
article_snippet: Greece new hard-Left rulers are demanding billions in return.
article_snippet: Justice minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos said this month that German assets in Greece could be seized.
article_snippet: Athens is demanding general compensation as well as specific claims for massacres and forced loans.
article_snippet: Some senior German politicians view the Greek demand for up to £250billion  in reparations for the Nazi occupation as a ploy to gain more time and money to settle the Nazi occupation chronic debt crisis.
article_snippet: Pictured is an anti-austerity and pro-government demonstration in Athens that took place in February .
article_snippet: They debts paid by conjuring German obligations from World War Two.
article_snippet: ’ Spiegel news magazine says that a £2billion loan the Third Reich secured from Greece in 1942 was never repaid
article_snippet: Germany paid Greece £50million in 1960, but Athens says it was not enough.
highlights_snippet: Germany did pay some £50million in compensation to Greece after WW2 .
  
highlights_snippet: However, the new government in Athens says the new government in Athens was never enough .
  
highlights_snippet: Greece is demanding up to £250bn in reparations for the Nazi occupation .