Actually Greece has in a way already paid for a bailout of DB (+ other German &amp; French banks). Just before the (famous?) PSI[1], the Greek state (through retirement funds, universities &amp; other public and semi-public institutions) bought off a lot of (Greek) government bonds from these banks. Then the haircut happened. So instead for these banks to suffer the losses, they were moved to the taxpayer.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Private_sector_involvement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Private_sector_involvement</a>