Poland sent Germany the invoice for the damages suffered during the invasion of World War II. Warsaw estimates the financial cost at 1.3 billion euros and announces that it is offering Berlin “to negotiate these reparations”.
Of this total “a very serious part is the compensation of more than 5.2 million dead Poles (about half of them Jews, according to the Polish Institute of National Memory).
According to the report, 2.1 million Polish citizens were deported to work in Nazi Germany. Each worker worked an average of two years and nine months. As a result of the war, pseudo-medical experiments, and detention in concentration camps, 590,000 Polish citizens were left disabled. In the years 1939-1945, Poland lost 50% of its lawyers, 40% of its doctors and 35% of its university professors.
Losses related to cultural and artistic assets were assessed at 19 billion zlotys (4 billion euros). Those of the banking sector were estimated at 89.3 billion zlotys (18.8 billion euros) and those of the insurance sector at 34.8 billion zlotys (7.2 billion euros). Material losses are estimated at 800 billion zlotys, or 170 billion euros.
An “incredibly criminal” occupation
Jaroslaw Kaczynski made these remarks at a conference devoted to presenting a report on Poland’s losses in World War II. Since he came to power in 2015, PiS has often raised the issue of reparations. Work on this report began in 2017.
According to Germany, Poland had renounced war reparations from East Germany in 1953, which is disputed by Polish conservatives.
Source: BFM TV
