'Greece will pay its debts back, if you let us. But not with a German knife held to our throats'

Eleftherios Basdekis has lived his entire life beneath a German cloud.

As a boy he escaped from a Nazi massacre in his village, running for three days barefoot through the Greek countryside to flee the hellish scenes. As a businessman, he bought German-made Mercedes trucks, becoming heavily indebted in the process. And as a pensioner, looking back on 83 years spent in this mountainous pocket of central Greece, he finds himself scarcely able to survive on his meagre pension – with German-led EU politicians demanding yet more austerity. 

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