#波兰政客称德国应赔偿1.3 trillion dollars #
Text/Meng Yun
The "uncrowned king" of the European Union, Germany, has a stall this time, and the "out of line" speech of the chairman of the Polish ruling party, Kaczynski, triggered a "diplomatic storm" within European countries, and also made the German side a little "confused". According to the Global Network reported on September 2, Poland suddenly expressed "strong criticism" of neighboring Germany, Kaczynski claimed that Poland has officially sought 1.3 trillion US dollars, about 9 trillion yuan of huge war reparations from Germany, and this astronomical amount of reparations will be used to make up for the huge economic losses caused by Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during World War II.
It is reported that Poland also issued a special report estimating the economic losses suffered by Poland during the Second World War, and using this as evidence to demand that Germany must provide huge economic compensation. Warsaw said that the report is the first step to open the "road to German atonement", in the current Polish "transitional justice" moment, the Polish government and people demand the truth, only Germany to Poland to make economic reparations can achieve real reconciliation between the two countries.
Analysts pointed out that in fact, since the end of the Second World War, Poland has been seeking German war reparations, but at that time, under the strong suppression of the former Soviet Union, the Polish top brass temporarily shelved the demand for war reparations against the GDR at that time. However, from the end of the Cold War until now, Poland has never given up the attempt to obtain German reparations, and the populism of "Greater Poleism" has gradually spread throughout the country with the polish ruling party coming to power, and the current Polish ruling party "Law and Justice" party has repeatedly submitted reparations claims to Germany, but has never treated the demand for reparations as a formal state act in the form of a government report.
For a long time, the Polish government and the Kaczynski group have serious differences with the Eu led by Germany, especially Poland's promotion of domestic judicial pilot reforms, but it has led to a series of crises in the EU's constitutional order and directly caused the relationship between the EU and Poland to fall to a freezing point. For Poland, Germany was not only the perpetrator of the war, but also the bearer of responsibility.
Claiming reparations for world war losses in World War II has become Poland's most important weapon against the Eu led by Germany, and Germany and other EU countries believe that Poland's linking the reform of its judicial system with EU politics is to loosen the unity within the EU, which is a typical "nest" and a political blackmail for the entire EU.
Germany is certainly well aware of the Polish side's intention to engage in political hype based on nationalism, and the German Foreign Office has replied to Poland that the German government believes that the issue of reparations has ended in 1953, and that the Polish government at that time has announced that it has renounced further reparations, and has repeatedly emphasized this statement during the Cold War. "Renouncing reparations and active reconciliation" is the basis of today's European order, and the German side acknowledges its responsibilities but will not respond to Poland's demand for reparations again, in other words, Germany's attitude is very clear: I have already compensated for the compensation, and I don't want to give a penny.