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Earlier, the German Chancellor said at the M100 media awards ceremony in Potsdam, in the presence of former European Council chief and current Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk, that he would not want anyone to “dig into the history books to bring revisionist changes to the borders “.
The Polish media linked these words to the conflict over the payment of compensation in Warsaw, although Scholz stressed in his speech that the border “has been determined forever after a hundred years of history”.
Speaking on Polish radio, Soloch said that “the coincidence is not accidental” and that Scholz’s words were in fact linked to the ongoing dispute between the countries.
According to him, to restore confidence, “profoundly clarifying words must come from the chancellor himself”.
“If not, we have the right to interpret this as a signal, perhaps not as a threat, but as a demonstration that ‘this is us, this is me, this government is a guarantee that this issue will not be raised'” adds the head of the department.
A few years ago, the question was raised in Poland that Germany should compensate the country for the damage caused during the Second World War.
This week, the Polish Sejm supported a resolution calling for reparations. Polish authorities previously said they expected 6.2 trillion zlotys (about 1.3 trillion dollars) from Berlin.
For its part, the German government replied that it did not intend to pay Poland anything.
Berlin believed that the reparations received from Warsaw were sufficient and that there was no reason to question their rejection by Poland in 1953.
A representative of the German foreign ministry also confirmed that Berlin considers the compensation issue closed. At the same time, Germany continues to have political and moral responsibility for World War II, he added.
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