The Real Reason Germans Can't Stomach Greek Debt? Nazis. | Foreign Policy - 0 views
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It’s now increasingly obvious that the Germans and Greeks are on completely different pages when it comes to moving forward together. And there’s a very specific group to blame: Nazis.
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The historic reference here is specific to the role debt played in the rise of the Nazi party after World War I.
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from 1924 to 1929, “the Weimar Republic lived on credit and even borrowed the money it needed for its World War I reparations payments from America.
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