Poland wants $1.3 trillion from Germany for WWII reparations

City of Warsaw, Poland Thursday, Poland’s senior lawmaker announced that the government will seek compensation from Germany for the Nazi invasion and occupation of Poland during World War II. On the eve of the 83rd anniversary of the commencement of World War II, the head of the Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, made the staggering estimate in conjunction with the release of a long-awaited report on the cost to the country of years of Nazi German rule.-

During the presentation of the study, Kaczynski stated, “Not only have we prepared the report, but we have also determined the next steps.”

“We will turn to Germany to begin reparations negotiations,” Kaczynski said, adding that it will be a “long and difficult route,” but “victory will come one day.”

Poland’s right-wing government contends that the country, which was the first victim of World War II, has not been adequately compensated by neighboring Germany, which is now one of Poland’s most important EU partners.

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Germany contends that compensation was provided to East Bloc nations in the years following World War II, whereas Poland was compensated with part of Germany’s pre-war territory for territories it lost in the East as borders were redrawn. Berlin considers the matter resolved.

Kaczynski, Poland’s senior policymaker, and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attended the report’s ceremonial publication at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, which was reconstructed from wartime rubble.

National commemorations of the centennial of the war that began on September 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany’s bombing and invasion of Poland and was followed by more than five years of cruel occupation centered on the release of the report.

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Since 2017, a group of approximately 30 economists, historians, and other specialists have collaborated on the paper. The issue has produced tensions between both parties.

The war was “one of the worst catastrophes in our history,” President Andrzej Duda said during early morning observances on the Westerplatte peninsula in Gdansk, one of the first areas to be attacked by the Nazis.

“Not just because it took away our independence, and not only because it took away our state, but also because this conflict cost millions of Polish citizens their lives and caused irreparable damage to our lands and our nation,” added Duda.

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Dietmar Nietan, the German government’s official for German-Polish cooperation, stated in a statement that September 1 “remains a day of guilt and shame for Germany that reminds us repeatedly not to forget the crimes committed by Germany,” which are the “darkest chapter in our history” and continue to affect bilateral relations.

Nietan stated that reconciliation offered by the Polish people is “the foundation upon which we may move forward together in a united Europe.”

The Polish government disputes a 1953 commitment by the country’s then-communist authorities, made under pressure from the Soviet Union, in which they agreed not to raise any further claims against Germany.

Grzegorz Schetyna, a member from the opposition, describes the study as a “game of internal politics” and emphasizes that Poland must establish good relations with Berlin.
Six million Poles, including three million Jews, were slain throughout the war, and the country’s industry, infrastructure, and culture suffered enormous losses.

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