Greek Anger Over Debt Crisis Is Directed Especially At Germany

Greek protesters demonstrate against the government's austerity measures on "Oxi Day," Friday, October 28, 2011. Press TV

Greek Anger On Debt Agreement Is Focused Especially On Germany -- New York Times

ATHENS — Every Oct. 28 Greece celebrates "Oxi Day," or " 'No' Day," a national holiday commemorating Greek resistance to the Axis powers during World War II. On Friday, those celebrations took on a greater weight. As Greeks suffer from harsh austerity measures, there is growing popular sentiment here that the country has ceded key parts of its sovereignty, and its pride, to its foreign lenders.

Here in Greece, anger is running so high — especially toward Germany, whose Nazi occupation still leaves deep scars here and which now dominates the European Union's bailout of debt-ridden Greece — that National Day celebrations were called off on Friday in the northern city of Thessaloniki for the first time ever afte [...]

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