File photo: Greece's New Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. (Associated Press)
Athens:
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Sunday the country had a "moral obligation" to claim reparations from Germany for the damages wrought by the Nazis during World War II.
Greece had "a moral obligation to our people, to history, to all European peoples who fought and gave their blood against Nazism," he said in a key address to Parliament.
"Our historical obligation is to claim the occupation loan and reparations," he said, referring to Germany's four-year occupation of Greece and a war-time loan which the Third Reich forced the Greek central bank to give it which ruined the country financially.
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