BERLIN, Germany (AP) — The foreign minister in Poland’s new pro-European Union government said Tuesday he would like Germany’s leaders to think in a “creative” way about compensating Poland for huge losses it suffered at German hands during World War II.
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The request was greatly toned down from that of Poland’s previous right-wing government, which had demanded $1.3 trillion in reparations for Nazi Germany’s invasion and occupation in 1939-45.
German officials have consistently said that while Berlin recognizes its historical responsibility, the issue of reparations was settled decades ago.
Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski spoke at a joint news conference with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Berlin before their talks on improving bilateral relations that were strained under Poland’s previous government.
“I will also ask the minister (to make) the German government think in a creative way about finding a form of compensation for these war losses, or of redress,” Sikorski said when talking about a project in Berlin to memorialize Poland’s suffering.
He did not give details.
Baerbock said that “confronting the suffering of millions (of people) that Germany brought on Poland remains a task for ever.” She didn’t address calls for reparations.
A nation of some 31 million in 1939, Poland lost some 6 million of its citizens, half of them Jewish, during Nazi wartime occupation. It also suffered enormous damage to its industry, infrastructure and cultural heritage.
Send Poland every and all the Muslims currently in Germany to make up for all the Polish war casualties.
WWII was a long time ago. All final settlements have been made. There is nothing more to be done concerning this. No more free money from anyone to anyone.
‘World War Ii Losses’. Editors so dedicated to spending in depth time eradicating any thought that’s they consider counterintuitive to their discretion can’t be bothered to make a capital I and write World War II Losses, not Ii?
Why don’t the also ask Russia for reparations?
Russia captured half of Poland and also murdered many of them.
First poland should give back whT they robbed the jews
Creative thinking is what they would do to defer the obligation to pay.
Solution: transfer $20B in trust to Poland, followed by Jews’ lien against Polish atrocities used to seize all of said money to distribute to yeshivas worldwide to perpetuate the Judaism Poles sought to destroy. Polish Poles you forgot that you partnered with Germany in the genocide while being territorial enemies. Partners in crime can’t claim reparations from one another. Only the victims may make such claims. THAT’S US YIDDEN.