“A particular scandal and audacity – the Willy Brandt Center and the Polish Ambassadors' Conference are demanding responsibility for demanding compensation from Germany for World War II crimes,” wrote PiS politician Radoslav Fogiel on the X website.
PiS settlement
Experts from the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław and the Conference of Polish Ambassadors propose to discuss the issue of Polish-German relations in the context of war reparations on three pillars: Better care for the victims of Nazi crimes. Still living in Poland, he takes stock of the benefits that Polish victims received from Germany and records the embezzlement of funds used in the “reparations campaign” of the PiS party, led by the party's deputy Arkadiusz Mularczyk.
In the study presented by both agencies, there were many critical remarks towards the former government. We read, among other things, that the issue of war reparations raised by PiS “was an important element in building the party's political position against anti-German resentment and enemy-seeking.”
The issue of receiving “astronomical” reparations from Germany was supposed to be used by politicians for the purposes of domestic politics and to “deceive” citizens. Experts believe that the actions taken by the United Right to receive reparations had no chance of success. They pointed out that after the breakthrough in Poland and the reunification of Germany (in 1991 and 2000), the agreements that guaranteed specific assistance to former concentration camp prisoners and forced laborers who were still alive at the time were deliberately devalued. ignored.
Moreover, the previous government was accused of destroying Polish-German relations and bringing them to a “dramatically low” state.
A study of Polish losses
The authors of the study believe that the report on Polish war losses, which was created by a special commission led by Arkadiusz Mularczyk, “cannot remain a source of knowledge about this tragic chapter of Polish-German history” because “it was based on a manipulated methodology. and contains fundamental errors and misjudgments.”
Therefore, it was proposed to finance a special grant to “internationally recognized scientists from the scientific community of different countries” who would create a new document. Interestingly, he analyzes the report of the work of the Mularczyk Commission, examines the possibility of Poland to ask for reparations from Germany, presents the scope and amount of the benefits of the German side that Poland received in connection with the World War. II and will raise the question of German ownership of the so-called restored territories, which the Poles took after the end of the war.
The above grant money will be allocated from the fund received by the Institute of War Losses established by the PiS government. According to the authors of the study, these funds were wasted, so they propose to liquidate the institute.
“The content of this document is shocking even by the standards of these renegades. Polish taxpayers must finance a report on 'private German property seized by Poland.' “The country should not receive the compensation imposed on us for the murder of 6 million people, the destruction of thousands of towns and villages, the looting of state and private property – but Poland should pay for the resettlement. With Germany for what the occupiers left in Poland…” – said PiS politician Pawel Jablonski.
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