Pavlopoulos: Greece’s right to claim wartime occupation loan, German reparations
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
It is Greece’s obvious right to want to claim German wartime reparations and the occupation loan, President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Thursday, adding they are “legally active and judicially pursuable.
Pavlopoulos was speaking at the opening of a photographic exhibition titled “Athens 1940-1944, which marked the anniversary of Athens’ liberation from German troops.
“During that period, Athens symbolized the city of ‘No’, the city of national resistance … because it was the eternal arc of world civilization,” he said, adding the same was true for Thessaloniki, which “defended Greekness and it’s our national duty to follow that example.” Thessaloniki, he continued, paid the price with the Greek Jews.
“These two cities, beacons of culture, have a common path,” he added.
Commenting on the “Nazi constructs we still see even in our country” he said people should not underestimate them and neither should Europe. “To fight the nightmare of neo-Nazism, we must support then value of Man … Every phobic syndrome is a shame”, he noted.
Related items
- Greek bases to hosts largest NATO air exercise this Fall.
- Far right deputy punches another far right MP, lands in jail, faces prosecutor
- Sakellaropoulou: The victims of the Armenian genocide must never be forgotten
- PM Mitsotakis at 'Aegis' event: 'The first time so much funding is spent on preventative actions' for climate crisis
- Eleni Tsolaki trolls herself after Elon Musk's comment: I have a proposal to take over as CEO of Twitter
Latest from E.Tsiliopoulos
- Greek bases to hosts largest NATO air exercise this Fall.
- Far right deputy punches another far right MP, lands in jail, faces prosecutor
- Sakellaropoulou: The victims of the Armenian genocide must never be forgotten
- PM Mitsotakis at 'Aegis' event: 'The first time so much funding is spent on preventative actions' for climate crisis
- Eleni Tsolaki trolls herself after Elon Musk's comment: I have a proposal to take over as CEO of Twitter