Reparations worth about $1.3 trillion “will not burden Germany in any way” and are a lifting sum for its economy, the head of the ruling party of Poland believes. Earlier, Warsaw called the amounts of $850 billion and $540 billion Poland will demand 6.2 trillion zlotys (about $1.3 trillion) of reparations from Germany for the damage suffered in World War II, the head of the ruling Law and Justice party Jaroslaw Kaczynski said, Forsal reports. “The amount that was presented as the cost of the damage is 6 trillion 200 billion zlotys,” Kaczynski said. According to him, the amount was calculated “by the most conservative method” and could have been more.
The politician also expressed the opinion that the specified amount is “completely acceptable” for the German economy and “will not burden it in any way.” Kaczynski explained that a significant part of the amount is “compensation for the deaths of more than 5.2 million Polish citizens”.
According to Kaczynski, the path to receiving reparations will be long, but Warsaw will succeed.
The Special Commission of the Polish Sejm on Reparations in 2017 estimated the damage caused to the country by Germany during the Second World War at $48.8 billion. However, in March 2018, the required amount of payments was increased several times – it reached $850 billion. 20 days later, Warsaw reduced it to $543 billion.
In October of that year, the Polish authorities announced that they would recalculate the amount of reparations “according to the new technology”. Despite the fact that the German authorities recognize responsibility for World War II, they have repeatedly denied Poland reparations, referring to the resolution of the Polish Sejm of 1953. In that document, Warsaw stated that Germany had fulfilled all obligations to compensate for the damage. In addition, in 1991, Berlin paid another 1.3 billion euros as part of the neighborhood agreement.
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Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak in 2019 said that the decision of the Sejm in 1953 was not sovereign, and blamed Russia for the lack of compensation.
In early July 2022, Kaczynski said that Poland would soon have the right to “punch the table” on the issue of reparations from Germany. At the end of the month, the politician did not rule out that he might not live to receive reparations from Germany. “I may not live to see it, but someday I need to start,” said 73-year-old Kaczynski.
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