Frank-Walter Steinmeier

The Mayor of Kalavryta and President of the Network of Martyred Cities and Villages “Greek Holocausts 1940-1945,” Thanasis Papadopoulos, launched a sharp attack on Frank-Walter Steinmeier over the issue of German reparations.

On the final day of his three-day official visit, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has asked for forgiveness for the crimes committed by occupying German forces in Greece during World War II.

The President of the Federal Republic of Germany Frank – Walter Steinmeier was welcomed in the martyred village of Kandanos with banners and slogans for German reparations.

The issue of reparations for the atrocities and the “forced loan” during the Occupation was raised— as it is in all visits by German officials to Athens—by both the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister during their meeting with the Pre

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis raised the issue of World War II reparations and the forced occupation loan with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier during their meeting at the Maximos Mansion on Wednesday.

"These issues remain unresolved, and we hope that one day they will be addressed," Mitsotakis told Steinmeier, who is in Greece on a three-day official visit.

Greece has renewed its call for negotiations with Germany regarding reparations for the damage caused during World War II.

"The issue is pending. It is important to address matters of the past," Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou told her visiting German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, during a meeting at the Presidential Palace on Wednesday.

The President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou met Wednesday morning at the Presidential Palace with the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in central Athens, on Wednesday. Steinmeier is in Greece for a three-day official visit. [Petros Giannakouris/AP]

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has visited the site of Holocaust museum being built in Thessaloniki as he began a three-day state visit.

Steinmeier visited the site near an old railway station in the northern city, from where tens of thousands of Jews were transported to Nazi concentration camps during the World War II German occupation.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is set to embark on a three-day official visit to Greece on Tuesday at the invitation of his Greek counterpart, Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

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