Greece, a case of déjà vu?

While inspecting my bunions recently, and pondering what can be learned from Chancellor Angela Merkel's body language, the sense of a revisit became strong. To clarify: in April 1941 Hitler launched a campaign through the Balkans to occupy Greece after the inadequate military actions of his Axis partner, Benito Mussolini … and then there came to attention the developing and hardening attitude of Germany to the Greeks and their sovereign debt uber-mega difficulties. So, is history cyclical (the Greeks were among the first to suggest that) or are some issues so long lived that they remain open for very many decades, say over 70 years? It's inspection and ponder time, real time, big time.

Contributor: Geoff Williams. Sempringham [ehistory.org.uk] eLearning Office.