The presentation in Poland of the reported losses suffered as a result of World War II and the amount of Polish compensation from Germany did not change Germany’s position on the possibility of reparations. – The federal government has taken notice of this publication. The government’s position on the demand for reparations, which we have discussed many times here, remains unchanged. According to the government, the case is closed – said the spokesman for the German government, Christofer Burger, on Friday (29/222) when asked at a press conference about the reaction to the Polish report.

He informed that a formal request from Poland for reparations had not been received and that no new talks on this subject were planned by Germany.

– Of course, the responsibility that Germany bears for crimes committed during World War II will never be closed. We have a clear moral and political position on this – and from this point of view, things will never end. At the legal level, the matter is closed – added the spokesman.

To save the memory of German wine

He recalled that the refusal of further reparations was declared by Poland in 1953, and the Polish government had confirmed it several times, including “As part of negotiations” on the agreement between the People’s Republic of Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany on December 7, 1970 and in the communiqués of the Council of Ministers dated December 7, 1970. October 19, 2004, Poland also accepted the Two-Plus-Four Agreement unconditionally as a final settlement in relation to Germany under the Paris Charter on November 21, 1990 year, Burger argued.

He stressed that the German government was “deeply concerned” that the memory of Germany’s responsibility and guilt for the “unimaginable suffering that Germany caused in Poland on behalf of Germany lives on in Germany”. And he reminded that this should be served, among other things, by a memorial site planned in Berlin, dedicated to the victims of the war and the German occupation of Poland.