WARSAW. At 1.32 trillion. dollar estimates Poland the cost of war and German occupationwith the head of the ruling nationalist party announcing that Warsaw will file a formal demand for payment compensation.

In Berlin, this matter has long been closed, and the government has declared that all wartime claims have been settled. Party “Law and Justice” and its leader Yaroslav Kachinsky refuses to accept it. “This amount was derived from conservative estimates. If necessary, it can be increased,” Kaczynski said.

Hostility towards Germany, which the party often uses to rally its electoral base, has strained Poland’s relations with Berlin. Over 6 million Poles, including three million Polish Jews, died during the war.

Warsaw will again make claims with an official request for 1.32 trillion. dollars from Germany.

In 1953, the then socialist government in Warsaw abandoned any future demands for war reparations, yielding to pressure from Moscow, which sought to declare the independence of a socialist East Germany and free the newly formed state from any demands for war reparations in advance.

The head of the Polish opposition, Donald Tusk, criticized Vice President Kaczynski’s request: “The Vice President’s statement is not about war reparations, but about an internal party campaign to strengthen the position of the leader of the Law and Justice party.