Bonn - The German government said yesterday it would not comply with a Greek court ruling ordering which ordered it to pay a Greek village second World War reparations. A court in Livadia ordered Germany to pay £21 million in reparations to the village of Distomo, where 214 residents were executed by occupying German soldiers in 1944.
A German government spokesman said that under a 1960 compensation treaty, Germany had paid Athens 115 million marks (£45 million) in reparations for Greek survivors who suffered under Nazi persecution.
