{"id":12946,"date":"2022-12-21T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/argyris-sfountouris\/"},"modified":"2024-03-01T11:29:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T10:29:20","slug":"argyris-sfountouris","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/en\/biographies\/argyris-sfountouris\/","title":{"rendered":"Argyris Sfountouris"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"12946\" class=\"elementor elementor-12946 elementor-5812\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-17413b02 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"17413b02\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-72599f6c\" data-id=\"72599f6c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f203811 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f203811\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Argyris Sfountouris<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-77b732db elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"77b732db\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">(born 1940 in Distomo, Greece)<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-40e2b039 elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"40e2b039\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-35793b0c\" data-id=\"35793b0c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5b2030dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5b2030dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\"Remembrance can however only begin after one has recognised the events, after one has accepted the whole truth of what has happened.\"*<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17bd4dcf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"17bd4dcf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tArgyris Sfountouris has committed himself to fostering Geman-Greek relations as well as to the recognition and compensation of victims of German war crimes. Argyris Sfountouris grew up in the Greek village of Distomo, near Delphi. In 1940, as a four-year-old, he was forced to witness his parents\u2019 and two of his siblings\u2019 murders, alongside the murder of some 200 neighbours, at the hands of German soldiers in an act of revenge. From then on, he lived with relatives and in children&#8217;s homes. At the age of eight, he was placed in a home in Switzerland. Later, Sfountouris worked as a teacher, physicist, aid worker, writer and translator. As far as the situation permitted, he fought against the Greek military junta of the 1960s and 70s, and later received Swiss citizenship. To this day, he is committed to recognising the suffering of victims of the Wehrmacht (armed forces of Nazi Germany) in the Second World War. Not least, he sued the Federal Republic of Germany before international courts. In 2015, he held the M\u00f6llner Rede im Exil (M\u00f6lln Speech in Exile) in memory of the victims of the right-wing extremist arson attack in M\u00f6lln in 1992. In 2022, Sfountouris was honoured with the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit). He has however still not received compensation as a victim of the Wehrmacht.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49ba3372 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"49ba3372\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>* \u2022 Sfountouris, A., Trauer um Deutschland. Reden und Aufs\u00e4tze eines \u00dcberlebenden (Mourning for Germany. 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