Germany owes Greece 278 bn euros in war payments: official Germany owes Greece more than 278 billion euros ($306 billion) in war payments, including some 10 billion for a forced loan taken by Nazi occupation forces, a junior minister has told parliament. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES from Distomo, a village in central Greece where Germany's Waffen SS massacred 218 people on June 10, 1944, as they pulled back in the wake of the Allied Normandy landings