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  • Updated: September 01, 2022

Poland Seeks $1.3 Trillion World War II Reparations From Germany

Poland Seeks $1.3 Trillion World War II Reparations From Ger

Poland has estimated its World War II losses caused by Germany at 6.2 trillion zlotys ($1.32 trillion) and announced its plan to officially demand reparations from Germany.

The remarks were made on Thursday by the leader of Poland’s governing Law and Justice (PiS) party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

Kaczynski said in a statement; “The sum that was presented was adopted using the most limited, conservative method, it would be possible to increase it."

Poland’s right-wing government has argued that the country, which was the war’s first victim, has not been fully compensated by neighbouring Germany.

The PiS has repeated calls for compensation several times since it took power in 2015, but Poland has not officially demanded reparations.

Germany has argued compensation was paid to Eastern Bloc nations in the years after the war, while territories that Poland lost in the East as borders were redrawn were compensated with some of Germany’s pre-war lands.

During the war, about six million Poles, including three million Polish Jews, were killed during the war and Warsaw was razed to the ground following a 1944 uprising in which about 200,000 civilians died.

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