WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister on Monday signed an official note to Germany requesting the payment of some $1.3 trillion in reparations for the damage incurred by occupying Nazi Germans during World War II.
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Zbigniew Rau said the note will be handed to Germany’s Foreign Ministry. The signing comes on the eve of Rau’s meeting in Warsaw with Germany Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who is attending a security conference.
Rau said the note expresses his view that the two sides should take action “without delay” to address the effects of Germany’s 1939-45 occupation in a “lasting and complex, legally binding as well as material way.”
He said that would include German reparations as well as solving the issue of looted artworks and archives.
Poland’s right-wing government insists that Poland is owed reparations for extensive war damage, while Berlin says it has paid compensation to the affected countries, including Poland, and considers the matter closed.
On the war’s 83rd anniversary, Sept. 1, Poland’s government presented an extensive report on the damages, estimating it at the $1.3 trillion figure.
Poland is demanding money from Germany I am demanding my property back that Poland stole and robbed from my family in 1939 worth over billions of dollars
What a chutzpah.
They want payment for helping the Nazis kill the Jews!,,
Europeans don’t learn their lesson.
This is almost a exact repeat of the Treat of Versailles which blamed WWI on Germany and required them to pay the rest of Europe. Which in turn destroyed the German economy and elected Hitler. The rest is History – pardon the pun.
Considering the fact that Germany’s national budget is just over 500 billion Euros, I doubt they have the ability to pay Poland $1.3 trillion. Why are they asking now, 77 years after the war ended?
In other news, I’m demanding 2.6 trillion to compensate for my trauma in cheder by my rebbe, his damage had been verified to be caused by WWII.
A joke
Maybe the Poles should give repatriation payments to the hundred thousand Jews they willing rounded up and gave to the Nazis.
Then the Poles stole the property of these very Jews.
Enough with reparations. Blacks want them. Indians want them. Now Poland wants them. Enough already.
Yeah. No. World War II in Europe is settled business. No further claims can be considered.
Seems Po-laks are dumb up to a certain point….
The check is in the mail. Allow 3-5 business days to receive it