Poland to seek trillion dollar war reparations from Germany for WWII
September 2, 2022, 10:44 am

Poland to seek trillion dollar war reparations from Germany for WWII

Poland-Warsaw-Old town/Pixabay

Poland's ruling party leader said on Thursday (September 1) that his country would seek 6.2 trillion zloty (1.31 trillion U.S. dollars) in compensation from Germany for the destruction caused by the Nazis during the Second World War.

The invasion of Poland (1 September – 6 October 1939), also known as the September campaign, was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II.

The German invasion began on 1 September 1939. The Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September.

The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland under the terms of the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the Law and Justice party, made the claim at a ceremony presenting a report over Poland's losses from the German invasion.

World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers - Photo. Pixabay

Kaczynski said that although the reparations process would be "lengthy and difficult," the issue was to "gain damages for everything that Germany, that the German state, that the German nation, did in Poland in the years 1939-1945."

He added that "dozens of countries around the world ... have received damages from Germany while Poland has not," which he attributed to a lack of initiative.

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Kaczynski said a general principle applied in international relations whereby if one state does another great harm, it must make good for that harm.

"And there is no reason why Poland has been excluded from the action of that principle," he said.

Around 6 million Poles, including 3 million Polish Jews, were killed during the Second World War, and the capital Warsaw was levelled following a 1944 uprising in which about 200,000 civilians died, according to a Reuters report.

(1 Polish zloty = 0.21 U.S. dollars)

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