Poland vows to seek huge WWII reparations from Germany: audio report

Poland's government has estimated the financial cost of World War II losses caused by Germany to be over a trillion euros and said it would ask Berlin to negotiate reparations.

Poland's government last week put the cost of World War II losses caused by Germany at over a trillion euros and said it would ask Berlin to negotiate reparations.

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Last Thursday, exactly 83 years after Nazi Germany invaded Poland to start the war, a three-volume report was unveiled, according to which the damage inflicted on Poland by Nazi Germany during the conflict totalled EUR 1.3 trillion in today's money.

🎥Presentation of the “Report on the losses suffered by Poland as a result of German aggression and occupation during #WorldWarII 1939-1945", 1 September 2022#unREDEEMed #WarLossesReport #RaportStratWojennych #bezprzedawNIEnia pic.twitter.com/q8Jxnzs0zW

— Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (@PremierRP_en) September 1, 2022

“In [Germany’s] public narrative and school curricula, the issue is treated vaguely, to say the least, so I subscribe to the opinion that a message to be sent by this report to German citizens, in case the report is translated, may trigger some re-evaluation, at least in some communities,” said one of the publication's authors, Włodzimierz Suleja of Poland's state-run Institute of National Remembrance (IPN).

Radio Poland’s Michał Owczarek has the details.

Click on the audio player above to listen.