In conversations with Bundestag deputies, I pointed out that Germany’s memory policy leaves much to be desired, Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk, who received a delegation from the Polish-German group, told PAP.

Talks between the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and representatives of the Polish-German group in the Bundestag took place on Thursday in Warsaw. On the German side they were attended by: Paul Ziemiak (CDU), Nyke Slawik from the Green Party, Axel Schäfer from the SPD and Joachim Wundrak from the AfD.

During the meeting, Minister Mularczyk presented a summary report on war losses and spoke of reparations, the lack of monuments to Polish victims of the Third Reich, and the lack of symmetry in financing Polish language teaching in Germany.

My interlocutor was not aware of it, I had the impression that the war loss report is very well prepared and presents the scale of German war crimes and Polish losses in such a synthetic form. I think it made an impression on my interlocutor

– reports the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

As Mularczyk pointed out, MPs Ziemiak, Slawik and Wundrak pointed out that Germany should compensate the surviving victims of World War II.

I think that should be the first step for Germany to take

– he says.

Members of Ziemiak and Slawik were interested in the scale of cultural goods and works of art that were looted, and cooperation should be developed in this regard.

– he added and reminded that he had shown the deputies that German law allows, after 30 years, to trade works at auction for stolen works of art, which is impossible in Poland and

I also touched on property plundered from the Polish Union in Germany, and Members of Parliament also expressed interest here

– reports the deputy minister.

During the talks, the Polish politician will inform the German deputies that on May 10 the Constitutional Court will address the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, from which the principle of judicial immunity of foreign countries in damages cases, among other things, will be discussed. , lowered. war crimes.

I hinted at this topic because there could be lawsuits against the German state

– added.

The discussion was not easy. It’s a conversation where we present things that are historically very difficult, where – I think – the other person is not happy to hear these things

Mularczyk stressed.

I point out that the policy of memory leaves much to be desired and gestures like Willy Brandt’s (German Chancellor kneels in 1970 in Warsaw in the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto – PAP) will not replace real reconciliation and reparations, which were met with the nervous reaction of an SPD MP who noting Brandt’s commitment to reconciliation

he says.

Mularczyk warned that a meeting with German deputies in the Bundestag was planned for May 22.

I am ready to present to the German side a list of those who were victims of World War II

he says.

During his two-day visit, the German delegation, among other things, met in Warsaw. with EU Minister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm Ryszard Terlecki and Speaker of the Senate Tomasz Grodzki.

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