The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, rejected Poland’s demands for repairs, stressing that the issue was finally resolved. According to PiS MP Arkadiusz Mularczyk, Scholz was “grossly wrong”. I am sure that after receiving the diplomatic note, he will change his mind – added the PiS MP.

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German Chancellor on reparations

Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) rejected Polish demands to repair the damage caused by the Germans to Poland during World War II. In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to be released on Wednesday, Scholz said:

“I can show, like all previous federal governments, that this question is finally resolved under international law.”

On September 1, the Polish parliamentary commission in Warsaw announced in a report that it assessed the damage caused by Nazi Germany to Poland at more than EUR 1.3 trillion, dpa informed on Tuesday. In rejecting Poland’s claim for payments, the federal government referred to the 1990 two-plus-four agreement on German unity in foreign policy.

The PAP asked PiS MP Arkadiusz Mularczyk about this report on Tuesday; he led the team that prepared the report on the losses Poland suffered as a result of World War II, which was presented on September 1 in Warsaw.

Mularczyk’s answer

Mularczyk, when asked that Scholz rejected Poland’s demands for repairs, told PAP:

“First of all, it must be emphasized that you cannot refuse something that has not been received. The diplomatic note on reparations has not yet arrived in Germany, so it cannot be rejected until it is received.”

The second problem – glad that the German chancellor no longer refers to the refusal of reparations. This is progress. The Chancellor should be commended here that Germany did not hide behind a fabricated and formally non-existent refusal by the Soviets

– said the PiS politician.

At the same time, he stressed that it is “highly impossible to agree that international law protects war crimes”.

In contrast, war crimes do not expire and you can claim compensation for them regardless of the passage of time, as the example of Namibia, where Germany paid the country a billion euros for colonial crimes.

– added.

Mularczyk also noted that Poland was not a party to the two plus four agreement.

It was about German reunification, not about reparations. On the other hand, Poland and Germany never made a bilateral agreement, or a peace treaty, or an agreement to liquidate the effects of World War II. The Chancellor is also very wrong and I am sure that during these discussions, as well as after the diplomatic note was announced by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, this matter will be clarified and the chancellor will change his mind.

said the politician.

Presentation of war loss reports

On September 1, a report on the losses suffered by Poland as a result of German aggression and occupation during World War II was presented in Warsaw. It was reported that the total amount of Polish losses was more than PLN 6 billion 220 billion. A day later, the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk, submitted the report to the German coordinator for cooperation with Poland, Dietmar Nietan. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in an interview with PAP on Monday that Poland wanted to send a diplomatic note on reparations to Germany as soon as possible.

Report on reparations prepared by the Parliamentary Team for Estimates of Compensation Due to Poland from Germany for Damage Caused During World War II, operating during the previous parliamentary term – from September 2017. The team led by PiS MP Arkadiusz Mularczyk prepared a report on Poland’s losses due to the World War II and the amount of compensation for Poland from Germany. About 30 scientists – historians, economists, property appraisers – and 10 reviewers worked on the report.

World War II was the largest and bloodiest war in the history of mankind, in which Poland suffered the relatively greatest losses and demographic damage among all the battles and occupied countries.

tkwl / PAP