New Athens-Berlin impact, Greece seeks 280 billion euros in war damages

The news is published just days before German President Frank Walter Steinmeier's visit to Athens and his meetings with Greek counterpart and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

As the magazine points out, as long as Greece was interdependent with EU support, Alexis Tsipras avoided demanding war compensation, while weeks after Athens completed its third aid programme, the Greek government launches a campaign with claims for these reparations.

The report, which will go to parliament for ratification, Greece has had it ready since 2016, but kept it closed in the drawer as long as it received assistance from EU countries where Germany provided the lion's share. It says Greece has the right to seek 269.5m euros in compensation from World War II, as well as a loan Germany has taken to it at the time of the 10.3m-euro invasion.

Also, according to the report, Greece will bring the issue to German courts, the European Council and the UN, though, as it is known, Berlin has repeated many times that the issue is resolved and that there is no debt to Greece.

The German magazine also estimates that the issue of WWII damages will be part of the agenda of the German president's meetings in Athens, which, among other things, in his programme will visit the country where the Nazis had their concentration camp in the capital's Greek neighbourhood of Hajdhar.