Poland demands €1.3 trillion in WWII
reparations from Germany
Deutsche Welle [Germany],
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
10/5/2022 1:35:12 AM
Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau has signed a note to Berlin demanding WWII reparations, an issue which Germany says was settled in 1990. Warsaw has estimated possible reparations at €1.3 trillion.
Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau signed a diplomatic note on Monday describing Warsaw's demands for reparations from Germany for World War II.
Rau's announcement comes ahead of a visit to Poland by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who is set to take part in German Unity Day celebrations on Monday at the German Embassy in Warsaw.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MissNan 10/5/2022 1:38:14 AM (No. 1295701)
Good luck collecting.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hybernicus 10/5/2022 1:55:20 AM (No. 1295706)
How responsible should one generation be for the sins of a prior one?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rama41 10/5/2022 2:05:47 AM (No. 1295707)
And they'd like it paid with coal by December 1st.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
smokincol 10/5/2022 2:10:14 AM (No. 1295709)
politics, politics, politics
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Some of the most interesting history is that of post-WWII Europe. No infrastructure, displaced people returning to homes that were no theirs, in some cases in countries that no longer existed. That the Allies were able to get the ruined continent back on its feet in such a relatively short period of time is remarkable.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Californian 10/5/2022 2:33:08 AM (No. 1295723)
I self identify as a country in need of ww2 German reparations for $1.3 trillion.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TJ54 10/5/2022 5:23:47 AM (No. 1295750)
Far more legit than reparations for Blacks
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mifla 10/5/2022 5:52:35 AM (No. 1295758)
I guess Poland has an excess of lawyers as well.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TruthFetish 10/5/2022 6:05:23 AM (No. 1295768)
What a mess. Yet, might Israel demand reparations for the value of half a million houses - occupied postwar by communist Poles and previously owned by exterminated Jews?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 10/5/2022 6:53:12 AM (No. 1295798)
The timing of this demand is curious. Why now? Does this timing have anything to do with the damaged pipelines? Stay tuned.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/5/2022 7:09:06 AM (No. 1295805)
Poland demands? What about the rest of the world?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Venturer 10/5/2022 8:01:50 AM (No. 1295831)
I suppose it never hurts to ask.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Clinger 10/5/2022 8:08:01 AM (No. 1295836)
How'd those WWI reparations from Germany work out?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TurtleDove 10/5/2022 8:15:52 AM (No. 1295843)
Based on this, the US should ask for reparations from EVERYONE we helped in WWII. sheesh!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/5/2022 9:20:40 AM (No. 1295896)
He might have tried that when Germany had money from a booming economy. Now, the phrase "blood from a turnip" comes to mind. War is hell but it's over, accept the gesture of Unity Day and shut up.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
FLCracker 10/5/2022 10:22:26 AM (No. 1295977)
I think they should sue the former USSR. That one is much more immediate (and just as likely to lead to a payoff.)
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 10/5/2022 10:46:40 AM (No. 1296011)
So will they take a check drawn on the Weimar Republic?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 10/5/2022 12:05:54 PM (No. 1296127)
So many displaced, and no way to go home. I doubt that reparations are going to happen. And #2 asks an excellent question.
I know a woman who was born in Germany, just after the war. And at age 12 chose to pack a small suitcase and walk all night in the countryside of the Soviet Zone of Germany as the wall was going up in Berlin, but which had not yet been built in the country side. Her family supported her choice, but they remained. She dodged Soviet patrols, walking until dawn found her in West Germany. She found an adult, told her story and was sent to an orphanage. After reaching adulthood, she emigrated to the US. She became a biologist, and then a pilot, then a bush pilot in Alaska, and lived for years up on the Yukon with sled dogs, far from civilization.
Eventually, she became a professor at a small college in the midwest. I asked if she wanted to go home after the wall went down. She said that the family home had been confiscated by the communists, and was still standing but owned by another family. She said all her direct family was dead, nothing left to go "home" to.
And how may million other variations of these kinds of stories are there from WW2 and the Soviet bloc aftermath? A LOT. She was pretty lucky, many were not so lucky.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Butch 10/5/2022 1:11:06 PM (No. 1296198)
The Germans are still the Germans, and they still prosper from Nazi slave laborers. (BMW; Krupp, Grunenthal (remember Thalidomide? That´s Grunethal, a Nazi-funded "Pharma" company that has never paid a penny in reparations.), etc, etc, etc.) They´ve paid billions to Israel, to their credit, but they should be made to pay ENORMOUS reparations to the Poles, whom they invaded in the most vicious manner imaginable.
It´s another generation ONLY because the Poles were unable to make such a demand earlier. It´s still the same generation, same Germans, same atrocities that they committed. They should pay, and continue to pay -- and hang their heads in shame.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rochow 10/5/2022 8:22:27 PM (No. 1296445)
The Germans did incredible damage just to the cities and ancient buildings. People were killed and brushed aside as if they were debris. Let the Germans pay, after all they are paying gazillions to foreigners from other countries where they did not inflict the pain and destruction that they caused in Poland.
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