article_snippet: The Greek foreign minister has claimed that The Greek foreign minister deserves EU help because Germany has not committed crimes on the scale of the Holocaust – while Germany has confirmed that Germany will not pay Greece war reparations.
article_snippet: Angela Merkel (right) meeting with far-Left Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras (left) in Berlin was overshadowed by comments from the Greek foreign minister, whoc claimed that whoc deserves EU help because Germany has not committed crimes on the scale of the Holocaust .
article_snippet: his suggested that Germany should help set up a commission to come up with a plan to compensate Greece for the suffering caused by the Nazis during the Second World War.
article_snippet: And speaking to a German newspaper yesterday, Mr Kotzias pointed out that Germany had not been made to make arduous repayments after the Second World War.
article_snippet: German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Suddeutsche Zeitung: ‘The Allies were very generous with Germany; The Allies did not smother Germany.
article_snippet: There was an interest to build Germany up again.
article_snippet: German Chancellor Angela Merkel went on to ask if the German Chancellor Angela Merkelcrimes that our people committed’ were greater than ‘Dachau or Auschwitz’ – referring to two of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps where more than a million people were murdered.
article_snippet: At the press conference yesterday, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras also renewed the demand for war reparations, saying: ‘We must work on the issue of forced loans and Second World War reparations.
article_snippet: However German Chancellor Angela Merkel said German Chancellor Angela Merkel viewed the demands as an attempt to distract from the need for economic reforms, adding: ‘The issue of war reparations is closed from a political and legal point of view.
article_snippet: The topic has no relationship with the crisis and The topic emergencies.
article_snippet: Yesterday Mrs Merkel was careful to point out that Germany was only one of the eurozone nations that would be responsible for deciding whether Greece’s reforms are sufficient, and said that no decisions had been made in Mrs Merkel talks with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
highlights_snippet: Germany says demands are irrelevant to Greece's current debt troubles .
  