Berlin rejects any kind of economic question and refers to the treaty for the reunification of Germany
Poland is demanding €1.3 billion in reparations from Germany for damage suffered during World War II. Coinciding with the 83rd anniversary of the start of the war unleashed by the Nazis, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, chairman of the ruling and ultra-conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS), demanded this Thursday from Berlin the payment of that huge sum to his country.
The federal government has meanwhile rejected all kinds of financial claims. “The Germans invaded Poland and caused us enormous damage. The occupation was incredibly criminal, incredibly cruel and had consequences that in many cases last to this day,” assured Kaczynski, who was willing to negotiate personally and directly with Germany. the payment of these reparations “We cannot turn the page just because it seems to someone that Poland is in a radically lesser situation than that of other countries,” said the ultra-conservative leader.
Kaczynski spoke in this way after the publication in Warsaw of a report detailing and substantiating the Polish Nationalist Executive’s compensation claims for his German neighbors. The PiS-dominated cabinet, which has been in power since 2015, has been demanding these payments from Germany for years and led to the creation of a parliamentary committee as early as 2017 to prepare the report now presented.
At the same time, he launched an institute for research into war damage. The publication of the report was deliberately made on this date: On September 1, 1939, the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany began, thus beginning World War II.
A conflict that took the lives of at least 55 million people, although other calculations speak of up to 80 million. Up to 6 million people have died in the conflict in Poland alone. Relative to its population, Poland is the country in the world with the most deaths during the conflict.
Arkadiusz Mularczyk, director of the parliamentary committee in charge of the investigation, pointed out that some thirty experts, including historians, economists and real estate experts, participated in the preparation of the report. The first volume is about five hundred pages long and is divided into nine chapters with calculations of Polish losses during the war in terms of demographics, economic valuation of human casualties and material damage.
It also deals with the loss of treasures and cultural and artistic assets, as well as various types of financial resources, bank assets and stocks. Germany systematically rejects any request for reparations for the last world war.
For Berlin, this issue was finally resolved with the signing of the agreement signed by the two German states, the Federal Republic and the former Democratic Republic, and the four victorious powers of the Second World War just before the reunification of the country in 1990.
Polish opposition leader and former President of the European Council Donald Tusk accused Kaczynski and his party of orchestrating an “anti-German campaign” for purely electoral reasons. “PiS chief Jaroslaw Kaczynski has made no secret of his intention to gain more support for the ruling party with this anti-German campaign,” Tusk said.
Source: La Verdad
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