Original title: Polish government announces details of German WWII claim
On October 28, local time, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement on its official website, announcing the specific content of the diplomatic note previously sent to Germany due to the claims of World War II. Among these, the amount of compensation proposed by Poland to the German side is 6,220.609 billion zlotys (approximately 9,532,506 billion yuan).
The note was sent by the Polish Foreign Ministry to the German Federal Foreign Ministry on 3 October, but its details were not made public at the time. Polish Foreign Minister Raou said he believed that Poland and Germany “should take immediate steps to form a permanent, comprehensive and final agreement on the legal and material levels of the consequences of the German invasion and occupation of Poland from 1939 to 1945 “.
In this declaration of 28, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that Germany is obliged to compensate Poland for tangible and intangible losses of 6,220.609 billion zlotys; compensation for losses and injuries caused to Polish victims as a result of the invasion and occupation of Nazi Germany; restitution of plundering cultural property currently in Germany from Poland; return the assets and liabilities of Polish state banks and credit institutions confiscated by the Nazi government between 1939 and 1945; to fully rehabilitate the Polish minorities killed in Germany before the Second World War; compensate for the losses of the organization of the Polish diaspora in Germany, etc. Furthermore, Poland seeks “adequate cooperation” with Germany to commemorate the Polish victims of World War II and hopes that Germany will take effective action to show German society “the real war and its consequences”, especially for the Poland and the Poles. damage.
The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs specified in the press release that the word “compensation” was used in the note instead of “reparation”, because the former has a broader meaning, including both the reparations provided for by international law and those proposed in the note other requirements.
In response to this, the German Federal Foreign Office responded later on 28th local time, stating that the position expressed by German Foreign Minister Berberke during his visit to Warsaw on 4 October is still valid, namely “the federal government ( German) believes that the issue of war reparations is over “. (Xu Ming Headquarters Reporter)
