During the German occupation, the conquerors executed the residents of 89 Greek cities and villages. In addition to that, they burnt more than 1800 villages and settlements. Germany denied paying off what owes to my country as an obligation that arise from the "occupation loan" and the war reparations. At 1964, the German Chancellor Erhard promised paying the off the loan after the unification of Germany, which was realized in 1990. The German indebtedness to Greece because of all that happened during the 2nd World War is now evaluated to 575 billion dollars.

The Court of Karlsrhue, recently approving the financial package for the Eurozone, said that : "The democratic principle of budget autonomy means that the Bundestag may not approve any open-ended intergovernmental or supranational guarantee or transfer mechanism".