Poland ramps up German war reparations demands
WARSAW (AA) – Warsaw is planning an information campaign to show how much damage Nazi Germany inflicted on Poland during WWII as part of its demand for reparations from Berlin, the ruling party head has said.
“We are preparing films on this subject, although of course it will take a while. We are preparing a great media operation on a global scale,” Jaroslaw Kaczynski, chairman of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, told a meeting with voters in the northern city of Olsztyn on Sunday.
“The world does not understand how the war and occupation in Poland differed from the situation in other countries,” he said.
Kaczynski said in September that Warsaw would officially demand reparations estimated to be 6.2 trillion zlotys ($1.3 trillion). This includes human losses – it was estimated that each person who died during the war should be compensated for with a sum of 800,000 zlotys ($170,300).
Poland’s Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau in October signed a diplomatic note demanding war reparations from Germany.
On Sept. 1, the 83rd anniversary of the German invasion of Poland, a parliamentary report was published on Polish losses suffered because of German aggression and occupation from 1939-1945.
Berlin claims all reparations were paid in the 1950s and will not sanction a reopening of the issue. The spat comes as Brussels is withholding several dozen billion euros in EU funds to Poland due to alleged breaches in the rule of law.
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