MOSCOW, Dec 5 Berlin must pay Warsaw for war crimes committed on the territory of Poland during the Second World War, writes the newspaper Do Rzeczy, citing the chairman of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, Yaroslav Kaczynski. His words were quoted by the newspaper Do Rzeczy.
«If Germany had been treated as planned, <…> then today it would be a very poor and much less populated country. They were pitied. Let them thank God for that this is the only way. They owe us — they must pay, «the politician said during a meeting with the inhabitants of the city of Nova Sul.
In his opinion, Germany was treated extremely condescendingly after all the monstrous crimes, humiliations and exploitation of those Poles who managed to survive.
According to the German news portal Tagesschau, the recently intensified anti-German and anti-European rhetoric of the PiS leader is partly connected with the election campaign to the parliament.
Formerly, the Polish authorities said they were demanding 6.2 trillion złoty (about $1.3 trillion) from Germany in reparations for damages from World War II. In early October, a corresponding note was sent to the FRG through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The German authorities have repeatedly stated that they have already paid fairly large reparations to Warsaw, and there are no grounds to question Poland's unauthorized refusal to pay in 1953.