Athens asks for repairs: print by verbal word

The Greek authorities formally requested Germany to barter reparations for Wehrmacht crimes. For the federal authorities, nevertheless, the difficulty is clarified and can't be additional negotiated.

By Michael Lehmann, ARD Studio Athens

It's a letter from the German International Ministry to the German authorities, which is named a verbal word within the language of diplomats. On this written assertion, Greece is now formally requested by Greece to barter any compensation for the injury attributable to the Wehrmacht crime.

Throughout the German occupation in Greece there weren't solely quite a few massacres and different crimes towards the civil inhabitants by German members of the Wehrmacht. German troopers looted a lot meals in some elements of Greece that the famine killed as much as 300,000 individuals.

Seibert: "Legally and politically resolved"

Within the lengthy years after the conflict, Germany paid compensation just for only a few of those Wehrmacht crimes. For the German federal authorities, the difficulty of compensation is legally clarified and not negotiable.

The Greek authorities continues to see it in a different way. Within the Greek parliament, each the left-wing ruling get together Syriza and the conservative opposition get together Nea Demokratia had voted in favor of recent negotiations with Germany on reparation funds.

The federal authorities spokesman, Steffen Seibert, had declared after this parliamentary decision in Athens, the difficulty of compensation is legally and politically finalized from the standpoint of the federal authorities. However legal professionals and historians don't agree on this concern.