Poland seeks $1.7 T Cdn in reparations from Germany for WW II
Poland’s top politician said Thursday that the government will seek the equivalent of some $1.7 trillion Cdn in reparations from Germany for the Nazis’ invasion and occupation of his country during the Second World War.
WTF! How much drugs/drunk is this fool?
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the Law and Justice party, announced the claim at the release of a long-awaited report on the cost to the country of years of Nazi German occupation as it marks 83 years since the start of the war.
What an entitled moron!
He claimed the German economy is capable of paying the bill.
So, it is all about trying to blackmail easy money from a more prosperous nation.
Germany argues compensation was paid to Eastern Bloc nations in the years after the war while territories that Poland lost in the East as borders were redrawn were compensated with some of Germany’s pre-war lands. Berlin calls the matter closed.
Agree.
Germany’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday the government’s position remains “unchanged” in that “the question of reparations is concluded.”
“Poland long ago, in 1953, waived further reparations and has repeatedly confirmed this waiver,” the ministry said in an emailed response to an Associated Press query about the new Polish report.
Sounds FINAL to me.
Poland’s government rejects a 1953 declaration by the country’s then-communist leaders, under pressure from the Soviet Union, agreeing not to make any further claims on Germany.
So because it is a different government, all previous agreements/treaties/etc are MOTE?
A Polish opposition lawmaker, Grzegorz Schetyna, says the report is just a “game in the internal politics” and insists Poland needs to build good relations with Berlin.
Except this demand for reparation of an already PAID/CLOSED agreement, is not the way to build good relations, all it does is sour them.
When/where does such reparations ends?
Can Eastern Europe sue the Soviet Union (aka Russia) for the cold war era occupations?
Can Eastern Europe sue the Ottoman Empire (aka Turkey) for the occupation they did in Europe?
Can India sue the UK for its colonial past?
Can Europe sue France for its Napoleonic Wars/occupations?
Can the Aztecs (Mexico) sue Spain for what the Spanish conquistadors, led by Hernán Cortés, overthrew the Aztec Empire.
Can European Nations sue Rome (aka Italy) for what happened during the era of the Roman Empire? Or sue Egypt for Ancient Egyptian? etc.
This entitlement/victimhood (going for what they hope is easy money) is even happening in Canada and the US.
I personally am SICK of it all.
These “victims” will never be satisfied, and will find something else to be a victim of no matter what we do to applease them.
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