
Germany: FM Varoufakis: 'Germany can understand the plight of Greece better than anyone else'
The respective Foreign Ministers of Germany and Greece, Wolfgang Schauble and Yanis Varoufakis met and spoke at a press conference at the Federal Ministry of Finance in Berlin on Thursday.
Varoufakis drew comparisons of Greece's current situation with Germany's some 70 years ago. He stated that given Greece's government facing "emergency circumstances caused by a savage debt deflationary crisis" from day one, the German nation are in the best position to understand Greece's current plight. This, he said, is because Germany has also experienced "ritual, national humiliation and unending hopelessness."
Varoufakis also drew a comparison politically, citing the "resurgence of Nazism" in Greece and praised Germany, saying that the people should be "proud of the fact that Nazism has been eradicated here."

The respective Foreign Ministers of Germany and Greece, Wolfgang Schauble and Yanis Varoufakis met and spoke at a press conference at the Federal Ministry of Finance in Berlin on Thursday.
Varoufakis drew comparisons of Greece's current situation with Germany's some 70 years ago. He stated that given Greece's government facing "emergency circumstances caused by a savage debt deflationary crisis" from day one, the German nation are in the best position to understand Greece's current plight. This, he said, is because Germany has also experienced "ritual, national humiliation and unending hopelessness."
Varoufakis also drew a comparison politically, citing the "resurgence of Nazism" in Greece and praised Germany, saying that the people should be "proud of the fact that Nazism has been eradicated here."