The Polish government on Thursday (September 1st) estimated the financial cost of the losses of the Second World War at one thousand three hundred billion euros and declared that it would "
ask Germany to negotiate these reparations
".
"
It's a significant sum of 6.2 trillion
" zlotys (EUR 1,300 billion), Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the ruling Law and Justice party, told a conference, adding that the process before for Poland to receive these reparations would be "
long and difficult
".
In this total "
a very serious part is the compensation for the death of more than 5.2 million Polish citizens
", he stressed.
According to the report, the material losses are estimated at 800 billion zlotys (170 billion EUR).
Jaroslaw Kaczynski made these statements at a conference devoted to presenting a report on Poland's losses in World War II.
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Since coming to power in 2015, PiS has often raised the issue of reparations.
Work on this report was started in 2017. “
We not only prepared a report, which is an open document and will definitely be completed, but we also took a decision, a decision on further action, Jaroslaw added. Kaczynski, and this action is to ask Germany to negotiate these reparations.
And it is a decision that we are going to implement
”.
“
The Germans invaded Poland and did enormous damage to us.
The occupation was incredibly criminal, incredibly cruel and caused effects that in many cases continue to this day.
“, said the president of the PiS.
According to Germany, Poland had waived war reparations from East Germany in 1953, which Polish conservatives dispute.