A Polish legal expert claims that Germany is discriminating against Poland, as Germany has already paid reparations to countries that suffered far smaller losses from the Second World War
Mateusz Morawiecki offered his remarks during a lecture at Heidelberg University in Germany on Monday
Arkadiusz Mularczyk revealed that Poland has issued 50 diplomatic notes to members of NATO, the EU, and the Council of Europe to explain Poland’s case
At a meeting with Polish journalists and politicians, German FM Annalena Baerbock saw no problem with a fellow German politician thanking Russians
Leader of Poland’s ruling party called German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s refusal to discuss reparations a barricade that Poland will now have to force down
“Germany considers themselves a moral power. That is like if I considered myself a basketball player in the NBA,” said Poland’s Kaczyński, who is 5’5″ tall
Polling research suggests that Poles do not believe the claim for World War II reparations from Germany will be successful, even though they believe that claim to be morally valid
No government and no politician has the right to refuse redress for war victims, their children, and grandchildren when they have suffered losses, and there are no lost causes until the cause has been fought, argues Marek Domagalski for news outlet Rzeczpospolita
Here is why Poland is choosing now to pursue €1.3 trillion in reparations from Germany
Some of the main beneficiaries of compensation paid out of German public funds for World War II were Germans resettled from territories lost to other countries
“German reparations to Poland is a conflict over the morality, fundamentals of the European Union and modern Polish-German relations,” says PiS MP Arkadiusz Mularczyk. He argued that if there is to be unity between Germany and Poland, then this topic cannot be left unresolved.
“The reparations are a debt that is still actual and Germany are obliged to pay,” says Dr Karl Heinz Roth in an interview with Deutsche Welle Polski. Poland, Greece and other countries should work together to resolve the matter.
German and Polish experts to meet in Warsaw to discuss the issue of Germany’s war reparations for Poland. Michał Sułdrzyński takes a closer look at how Polish-German relations developed after the Second World War (WW2) and the fall of communism.
Mularczyk, MP of Law and Justice (PiS) and chairman of the parliamentary committee to assess Germany for damages of WW2 on Poland, said that Poland has had a long struggle over war reparations
