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A Glimpse of the German Vision for Greece and Europe

Edit Huffington Post 13 Jul 2015
A joke circulating has a Greek passport officer asking a German woman at the border, "Name?" She replies "Merkel, Angela." The passport officer continues. "Occupation?" Merkel responds ... 280) ... (See Albrecht Ritschl and now again Picketty http.//www.truth-out.org/news/item/27261-germany-s-unpaid-debt-to-greece-albrecht-ritschl-on-germany-s-war-debts-and-reparations#) These "loans" have recently been valued at hundreds of billions of Euros....

Tsipras Blinks: Surveillance (07/10)

Edit Bloomberg 10 Jul 2015
Michelle Meyer, Jonathan Fenby, ......

What was good for Germany in 1953 is good for Greece in 2015

Edit The Guardian 06 Jul 2015
Economic assistance under the Marshall plan was important to both countries, but it was the granting of debt relief that made a difference to the Germans. A word in your ear. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, with the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsiprasm, in Berlin earlier this year. Photograph. Stephanie Pilick/EPA ... Writing in the Economist magazine in 2012, Albrecht Ritschl, a professor of economic history at LSE, said ... comments ... ....

The case for Greece: when it forgave Germany's debt

Edit Stars and Stripes 06 Jul 2015
LONDON — Forgiving debt, if done right, can get an economy back on its feet. The International Monetary Fund certainly thinks so, according to a new report in which it argues Greece should get help ... Among its creditors then? Greece ... "The London Agreement gave Germany sweeping debt forgiveness and protection from creditors, in exchange for pro-market reforms," said Professor Albrecht Ritschl of the London School of Economics ... ....

When Greece Forgave Germany's Debt

Edit Huffington Post 03 Jul 2015
LONDON (AP) — Forgiving debt, if done right, can get an economy back on its feet. The International Monetary Fund certainly thinks so, according to a new report in which it argues Greece should get help ... Among its creditors then? Greece ... ___ ... "The London Agreement gave Germany sweeping debt forgiveness and protection from creditors, in exchange for pro-market reforms," said Professor Albrecht Ritschl of the London School of Economics....

when it forgave Germany's debt

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 02 Jul 2015
The 1953 agreement, in which Greece and about 20 other countries effectively wrote off a large chunk of Germany's loans and restructured the rest, is a landmark case that shows how effective debt relief can be ... "The London Agreement gave Germany sweeping debt forgiveness and protection from creditors, in exchange for pro-market reforms," said Professor Albrecht Ritschl of the London School of Economics ... ....

Germany resists debt relief for Greece, but benefited from such a plan after WWII

Edit Stockhouse 02 Jul 2015
LONDON _ Forgiving debt, if done right, can get an economy back on its feet. The International Monetary Fund certainly thinks so, according to a new report in which it argues Greece should get help ... Among its creditors then? Greece ... ``The London Agreement gave Germany sweeping debt forgiveness and protection from creditors, in exchange for pro-market reforms,'' said Professor Albrecht Ritschl of the London School of Economics ... ....

Here's The Truth About Greece That Many Germans Won't Like to Hear

Edit Huffington Post 01 Jul 2015
Greece's is facing a massive economic crisis. And of course, most Germans have seen it coming ... Right? ... All this propaganda against Athens fails to acknowledge one fact ... “After comparing the extent of damage to the economic output, Germany is the biggest debt transgressor of the 20th century – if not of the more recent financial history,” said economic historian Albrecht Ritschl as early as 2011. A quick summary. ... 1924, 1929, 1932 and 1953....

Greece – The Way Out

Edit Information Clearing House 26 Jun 2015
By Peter Koenig. June 26, 2015 "Information Clearing House" -  What the troika is doing to Greece these days is the pinnacle of financial terrorism. It is economic waterboarding. It is blackmailing of the first degree ... That is their threat. That is what Brussels does to a brother; to one of theirs ... Mr ... According to German economic historian Albrecht Ritschl, Germany has defaulted 3 times on its debt in the 20th Century....

WWII reparations – Greece's other dispute with Germany

Edit Kathimerini 18 Feb 2015
As Berlin and Athens lock horns over debt relief, Greece’s claim that Germany has never compensated it for all the damage wrought by the Nazis during World War II is again straining ties ... The Nazi regime ended up bleeding Greece dry ... Albrecht Ritschl, a professor of economic history, said in an interview with Germany’s Spiegel news weekly in 2011 that "Germany has been the 20th century’s worst payer of debts" ... [AFP] ....

WWII reparations — Greece’s other dispute with Germany

Edit Dawn 08 Feb 2015
BERLIN. As Berlin and Athens lock horns over debt relief, Greece’s claim that Germany has never compensated it for all the damage wrought by the Nazis during World War II is again straining ties ... The Nazi regime ended up bleeding Greece dry ... Albrecht Ritschl, a professor of economic history, said in an interview with Germany’s Spiegel news weekly in 2011 that “Germany has been the 20th century’s worst payer of debts” ... Apple Store ... ....

Greek wartime dispute straining ties with Germany

Edit Taipei Times 07 Feb 2015
As Berlin and Athens lock horns over debt relief, Greece’s claim that Germany has never compensated it for all the damage wrought by the Nazis during World War II is again straining ties ... The Nazi regime ended up bleeding Greece dry ... Albrecht Ritschl, a professor of economic history, said in an interview with Germany’s Spiegel news weekly in 2011 that “Germany has been the 20th century’s worst payer of debts.” ....

The biggest debt write-offs in the history of the world

Edit The Daily Telegraph 02 Feb 2015
From ancient Babylonia to 1930s Europe, debt jubilees have been far more common than discussions over Greece would suggest. Greece's EU creditors are playing hard-ball over granting Athens debt relief Photo. Reuters. By Mehreen Khan. 2.42PM GMT 02 Feb 2015 Follow. Comments ... No, it's not Greece, but Croatia ...  . Jeremy Warner ... The total forgiveness amounted to around 280pc of GDP from 1947-53, according to historian Albrecht Ritschl ... ....
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