Nations in need usually don’t like the nations that rescue them. Germany was suspicious of America for decades after the Second World War; now the Greeks have mixed feelings towards Germany. They admire the stereotypical country of efficiency and fiscal prudence, but they resent what they perceive as a patronising and moralising attitude towards them.
One result is frequent allusions in the Greek press to the Nazi occupation in the Greek press: the arrival of an EU technical assistance team was greeted by Eleftherotypia newspaper with the headline: “30 Gauleiters sent into the ministries”. http://flatworld.welt.de/2011/10/04/euro-crisis-shows-germans-that-there-fate-is-now-in-the-hand-of-others/#more-522
