Debt that time won't erase: Case for Greek reparations 80 years after WWII

Greece renews calls for Germany to negotiate WWII reparations, citing unpaid wartime debts and lasting devastation from the Nazi occupation.

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou pressed Germany ’s visiting President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to acknowledge and negotiate reparations. / Photo: Reuters

For Greece, these aren’t merely economic claims, they represent a moral debt that Greece feels Germany has yet to pay. For many Greeks, the horrors of Nazi occupation are not distant memories but part of a lived historical experience passed down through generations.

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