Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Muliarczyk confirmed on Wednesday that the government in Warsaw sent diplomatic notes to “approximately 50 countries” on Poland’s demand for Germany to pay reparations for World War II, DPA, EFE and Agerpres news agencies reported.

According to the quoted official, the note was sent to “members of the EU, NATO and the Council of Europe” and contains “information about the legal basis, historical and moral reasons (Poland) for asking for war.” reparations from Germany”.

“With this note, we inform the state of Germany, as well as our European partners, that statements of moral responsibility cannot take place as a fair agreement on the payment of compensations, reparations and the return of stolen cultural values ​​and works of art to Poland, as well as its banking institutions. resources,” reasoned the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland.

“This is the only way our relations will be honest in the future and our reconciliation will be real and not just a facade,” he added.

Poland wants to receive 1,350 billion euros from Germany

After years of raising the issue of war reparations without specifying a specific amount, in September the government in Warsaw formally asked Germany to pay it 1.35 billion euros, citing an assessment made by a commission made up of economists, lawyers and historians.

This commission presented a report in three volumes on the economic, hereditary and human losses inflicted on Poland by Germany in the Second World War in the period 1939-1945.

Germany says Poland renounced war reparations in 1953

However, the government in Berlin has repeatedly stated that, from its point of view, the question of war reparations demanded by Poland is closed, since the Polish government signed an agreement with the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1953, according to which Warsaw renounced the demands for reparations military compensation.

But, according to Warsaw, that agreement, signed by the Polish communist government, is invalid from a legal point of view, because at that time Poland was acting on the orders of the USSR.

“If there is no will to dialogue on the part of Germany…”

Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Muliarczyk, who will pay an official visit to Germany in early December, said in a statement on Wednesday that the request to Berlin “does not mean aggravation of German-Polish relations,” but warned that “if there is, there will be no will to dialogue on the part of Germany, Poland will take measures within the framework of international organizations.”

Poland’s liberal former prime minister and former European Council president Donald Tusk, now the leader of the Polish opposition, accused the conservative government in Warsaw of waging an “anti-German campaign” by insisting on war reparations.

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