The Polish governmenthas estimated €1.3 trillion in financial damage inflicted by World War II and now is asking Germany ‘to negotiate these reparations’,as per Politico.
Leader of Law and Justice (PiS)JaroslawKaczynskisaid at a news conference dedicated to the report estimating losses accosted by the war: "The sum that was presented was adopted using the most limited, conservative method, it would be possible to increase it.”
MrKaczynskiadded that obtaining the country’s reparations would be a ‘long and difficult’ process.
The report began in 2017 when the government insisted that Germany had a ‘moral duty’ to come up with a form of compensation.
Nazi Germanyinvaded Poland on September 1, 1939, which triggered the Second World War and led to six million deaths, with an estimated 40 to 50 million deaths worldwide.
Despite this, Germany had previously dismissed Poland’s request, as they believed that the issue came to a close in 1953 by Poland when they renounced reparation claims against East Germany.
Germany's foreign ministry announced that their position had remained ‘unchanged’.
“The position of the Federal Government is unchanged, the reparations issue is closed,” a spokesperson from Germany’s foreign ministry said in an email toAFP.
“Poland renounced further reparations a long time ago, in 1953, and has confirmed this renunciation several times. This is an essential basis for today’s European order. Germany stands politically and morally by its responsibility for the Second World War.”
Leader of the main opposition party Donald Tusk also said that he believed that sentiment was more of a ‘political campaign’ in Poland,according toBloomberg.
He also accused MrKaczynskiof trying to win over the masses through this ‘anti-German’ tirade.
However,TRT World reportsMrKaczynskihit back at denials, claiming that Germany has never been ‘accountable’ for its crimes in the central European country.
He said: "Germany has never really accounted for its crimes against Poland. The Germans invaded Poland and did us enormous damage. The occupation was unbelievably criminal, unbelievably cruel and caused effects that in many cases continue to this day.”
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