.... I love German bashing, since I am from Germany myself I can relate to some extent (some of us are pretty unhappy with our current government). But you seem to misunderstand some things:

Your own government was full of corruption and has been mismanaging your country for the better part of 30 years, we had nothing to do witht that (remember this?: In 2011, it was reported that Greece was paying pensions to 4,500 dead and then as well to 40,000 fraudulent claimants who were being asked to return the money but not prosecuted, even though they had been stealing from the state for more than 20 years in some cases. - See more at: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/08/17/greece-still-paying-dead-pensioners/#sthash.oObK837v.dpuf).


It's understandable that you are searching for arguments to get Germany to cut some of the debts, but the warcrime reparations payment is laughable at best. Do you even know how much Germany paid after WW1? 67,7 Billion Goldmark (~225B € with todays prices). I won't start with WW2 because it's a lot more difficult, but trust me that the damages paid were some orders of magnitude higher if calculated with current prices.

Just because Greece is nearly bancrupt does not mean you can just pull some 70 year old reparations out of your pockets in order to get by. The sad thing is, you are bancrupt even with all the help you got, Ireland etc. got the same help and are stabilized, but your country has just so much debt in the private sector - even with a cut in eu debt - you still won't be able to pay back the private creditors.