BERLIN (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 05th June, 2019) Germany sees no legal or political grounds to grant the Greek request for wartime reparations, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
The Greek Embassy submitted on Tuesday a written note to the German Foreign Ministry, claiming Berlin owed Athens 320 billion Euros ($361 billion) in compensation for damage sustained during the two world wars.
"More than 70 years after the end of [WWII] ... , the issue of reparations is legally and politically exhausted," Rainer Breul told reporters.
Germany paid Greece 115 billion marks in 1960 for damage resulting from the Nazi occupation in World War Two, but Greece has argued that Berlin needed to pay for the suffering of war victims and the plundering of Greek cultural treasures.
