We want the US Congress to pass a resolution on war reparations from Germany to Poland for the losses it suffered during World War II; We are also talking with the American side about reparations from Russia – said the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Arkadiusz Mularczyk in PAP Studio on Wednesday.

US President Joe Biden delivered a speech to the Polish nation in Warsaw on Tuesday. among others he assured that support for Ukraine would not falter and stressed the US commitment to fulfilling the provisions of the North Atlantic Treaty and defending every member of NATO. He also referred to Poland’s history during World War II and Poland’s role in the fight against communism.

Cooperation with the US

Arkadiusz Mularczyk, asked Wednesday in PAP Studios whether President Biden’s speech was also a signal that the US would support Poland in obtaining compensation for World War II losses from Germany, said that “as far as the US parliament is concerned, we are at the start of cooperation.” , which led to the adoption of a resolution on reparations for Poland.

I’ve also looked into areas of collaboration at the educational level with the United States Library of Congress and National Archives. It is important to show the Polish perspective on World War II, because from the American point of view it is the war in the Pacific and the question of the Holocaust, while the Polish perspective of war losses, exploitation, destruction, looting is relatively invisible. We decided that the time was right to present the Polish perspective to our partners – the American government

Mularczyk said.

Today we show that what happened in Ukraine for a year, has been happening on Polish soil for six years, both on the part of the Russian and German aggressors

– added.

Reparations from Russia

When asked if Poland raised the issue of getting war reparations from Russia in talks with the US, he said that this topic also came up during his recent visit to Washington.

One Democratic Party congressman said Poland deserved compensation from Russia

Mularczyk added.

He said it was a “matter of the future”.

We are also working on a report on the military start-ups that took place in Poland during and after World War II. Our analysis shows that the reparations we should have received through Russia have not been paid in full

Mularczyk said.

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