Polish Foreign Minister sends note to Germany demanding reparations

Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau signed a note demanding reparations from Germany for the destruction during World War II. The amount of military damage in Warsaw is estimated at 6.2 trillion zlotys or 1.3 trillion dollars.

Report informs, citing TVN24 that in the near future, the document will be handed over to representatives of German diplomacy.

The Sejm of Poland adopted a resolution on reparations on September 14. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that reparations are necessary so that Polish-German reconciliation is exemplary.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in turn, announced the possibility of revising the borders between Germany and Poland.

This is not the first time that the Polish authorities have demanded that Germany pay war damages. In 2017, Poland created a special parliamentary commission on the issue of receiving reparations from Germany. Berlin declared that it did not intend to pay compensation to Poland, since in 1953 Warsaw officially refused reparations.