Polish flag in Warsaw. File photoWARSAW, Sep 1Poland will demand more than a trillion dollars from Germany in reparations for damage caused during World War II, said the head of Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) Jaroslaw Kaczynski. «The amount that was presented as the cost of damage is 6 trillion 200 billion zlotys (1.3 trillion dollars — Ed. note),” Kaczynski said, presenting a report on Poland’s military losses. According to Kaczynski, this amount is “completely lifting for Germany.” At the same time, he did not rule out that it could grow in the future.The Poles suspected the Germans of wanting to take away Stalin's giftAccording to Kaczynski, «Germany has not yet paid for its crimes against Poland.» He was indignant at the fact that many Nazi criminals were not punished, and some even «occupied high positions» in post-war Germany. The head of PiS noted that the presentation of the report on reparations was «a decision to raise this issue in the international arena, and especially in Polish-German relations «. He noted that Poland wants «to receive compensation for everything that the German state and the German people did to Poland in 1939-1945.» «This is our goal, which fits into the concept of restoring the normal state of affairs in the functioning of the Polish state,» Kaczynski stressed. .In Poland, a few years ago, the question was raised that Germany should pay reparations to the republic for damage during World War II, a special parliamentary commission was created to calculate the amount. The German government has repeatedly stated that it does not intend to make payments to Poland: in Berlin, they believe that they have already paid quite large reparations and there is no reason to doubt Poland's refusal of reparations in 1953.
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