The former President of the Republic and Honorary Professor of the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, referred to Greece’s demands for restitution for the forced “loan” to occupation forces and reparations for the crimes of Nazi atrocities.

Disappointment for Athens regarding the German reparations shortly before the arrival of the German president in Athens.

"We must not forget the crimes in Greece for which German fascism is responsible," stated Ulrich Schneider, General Secretary of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters - Association of Anti-Fascists  (FIR), in a message to the 3rd Hellenic Conference on Holocausts and German Reparations to be held in Amira Viannou, Crete on September 14-16.