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The Greek Resistance
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The Greek Resistance

48 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Ten years after Greece joined the eurozone, its economy has collapsed: living standards have fallen, hundreds of thousands are unemployed, and thousands more have left the country for work elsewhere. Al Jazeera correspondent Barnaby Phillips travels through Greece to find out why many Greeks direct their anger not at Athens but at Berlin. The film traces how Germany, defeated and divided seventy years ago, has become the strongest economic power in Europe, its government now holding real influence over Greek finances through the eurozone's rules. Phillips talks to Greeks who see austerity terms as a rerun of old grievances, and to Germans who see themselves as reluctant creditors rather than occupiers. Old wartime memory keeps surfacing in the interviews, giving the debt crisis an edge that pure economics does not explain. The film sets these two histories, ancient alliance and wartime enmity, against a very present argument over who caused the crash and who should pay to fix it.