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Wednesday February 15 2012

Those who are currently attempting to extract a sum of money from Greece far and above what that country can pay, will do well to remember the Treaty of Versailles where similar demands were made of Germany.

The result was bankruptcy, despair, hyperinflation, and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler.

(Dr) Andrew Norman

Poole, Dorset

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