Warsaw is inclined to drop a trillion-euro demand in exchange for annual payments to dying WWII survivors, Suddeutsche Zeitung has reported
Poland has scaled back its long-standing reparations campaign against Germany and is now seeking annual payments of around €2,333 ($2,660) for each living victim of Nazi persecution instead of the €1.3 trillion it once demanded, Suddeutsche Zeitung reported on Sunday.
The dispute traces back to the September 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland and nearly six years of occupation that killed around 6 million Polish citizens – 17% of the country’s prewar population.
In 2022, the Polish government, led by the right-wing Law and Justice party, demanded €1.3 trillion in war reparations. Berlin vehemently rejected the demand as “legally resolved once and for all,” arguing that Poland’s communist-era government waived further claims in 1953, adding that this position had been reinforced by the 1990 Two-Plus-Four Treaty on German reunification.
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