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German presidential visit
« on: Thursday, 06 March, 2014 @ 00:39:53 »
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German president seeks to visit Nazi massacre site

Germany's president arrived in Athens Wednesday on a three-day visit that will include visiting the site where Nazi troops massacred dozens of people, in an attempt to ease anti-German sentiment stoked by Greece's financial crisis.

Joachim Gauck's three-day visit will include a speech Friday at a site where German army troops massacred 92 villagers near the northeastern town of Ioannina, and a meeting with the town's Jewish community.

In an interview with Greek Kathimerini daily published Wednesday, Gauck refused to discuss demands in Greece that Germany should pay reparations for World War II atrocities. But he said Germany bears an undeniable "moral burden."

Germany rejected a demand last month by Greek Jews for compensation over a World War II ransom extracted to free Jewish slave laborers — who were subsequently murdered in Nazi death camps.

Anti-German feelings in Greece were remarkably muted after the war. But Greece's financial crisis, which evolved into an economic depression amid the highest postwar unemployment levels, changed that.
http://www.sunherald.com/2014/03/05/5390731/german-president-seeks-to-lay.html