Posted on 09/16/2025 3:21:36 PM PDT by fluorescence
It’s no secret that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz prefers to work with that other Polish leader, centrist Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
But on Tuesday he’ll be receiving Polish President Karol Nawrocki, a nationalist backed by the opposition populist right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, which demands that Berlin pay reparations for Nazi Germany’s World War II invasion and occupation of Poland.
Relations between Poland and Germany have seesawed between close cooperation and open friction in recent years. While the two countries have strong trade relations and increasingly cooperate on defense, Nawrocki and PiS politicians have railed against the EU’s influence over Polish affairs and have stoked lingering resentments over the historical destruction that Nazi Germany wrought on Poland.
“Reparations will not serve as an alternative to historical amnesia, but Poland as a frontline state, as the key country on NATO’s eastern flank, needs justice and truth [and] clear relations with Germany,” Nawrocki said earlier this month during a World War II commemoration.
Nawrocki will “certainly refer to the issue” during his Berlin visit, said his spokesman, Rafał Leśkiewicz. The Polish president is scheduled to meet Merz as well as German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. No press conferences are planned, limiting the opportunity for open displays of discord.
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In April, a temporary memorial involving a 30-ton boulder was erected in Berlin to commemorate the Polish victims of Nazi Germany. There are plans to erect a permanent memorial, though the German Bundestag must first pass a resolution.
But such gestures are unlikely to satisfy demands by PiS politicians for reparations, given how many Polish voters back the party’s stance. A survey by SW Research for news portal Onet found that 54 percent of respondents backed reparations while some 27 percent opposed the idea.
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Ha ha.
They need it from Russia, too.
Yeap about 10n billion from Russia for 1939, and 1944 to 1990
LMAO
I wouldn’t give them a dime!
this government has NOTHING to do with the Nazi’s
To ask for reparations 80 years after the fact seems a bit late.
They need it from Russia, too.
No, That was settled in the surrender negotiations. Maybe Poland can bill the grave of Stalin?
The German Nazis should pay Poland Reparations by sending all their IslamoNazi Terrorist Immigrant Citizens to Poland for use in Restitutional Labor work gangs, and call it even.
LOL! It's a little late for that, isn't it? After all, it took Germany almost 100 years to finally pay their WWI reparations in full.
Besides, Poland hasn't even been able to fund 2% of their GDP for their own defense that they agreed to in 2014 as a NATO member. Now it's 5%. When will they get up to speed on that? The U.S. taxpayer has been funding their defense all this time.
They should have fined all those Poles who colluded with the Nazis in WWII to round their neighbors up.
The annual estimate of Germany’s Gross National Product (Gross National Income) in euros for 2024 is approximately 4.4 billion euros.
Oh Good
That oughta get everyone in Berlin excited about a united effort to confront Putin
“enjoy the drone swarms, Mr. Nawrocki - and BTW, when will you be ceding Prussia back to us?”
Seems quite low. Maybe decimal in wrong place, or zeroes are missing?
Five percent is the goal by 2035 for America and NATO.
Poland is currently spending well over 4%.
In 1939 both Germany and Russia invaded Poland. After war the Russians retained are large part of Poland. The Poles were compensated by receiving a large part of German territory. The ethnic cleansing of eastern Europe resulted in the deaths of about 2 million people: mostly women and children. Have the Poles received compensation for the Katyn Forrest massacre?
They received a bunch of German land. Both Russia and France received some as well.
Well, it’s about f-ing time. Leeches.
Ukraine received the Polish land.
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