Posted on 07/25/2023 7:10:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Poland has reiterated its claim on €1.3 trillion ($1.4tn) in damages caused by Germany’s invasion and occupation of its territory during the Second World War while making comparisons to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that Berlin will likely find uncomfortable and has so far seemingly tried to ignore.
Germany should lead by example on the Ukraine war and settle accounts with neighbouring Poland, which it invaded and occupied between 1939 and 1945, causing terrible harm and subjecting the nation to the Holocaust, Polish Secretary of State for Europe Arkadiusz Mularczyk has said.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“Germany ‘paid’ reparations for WW2 by reabsorbing East Germany at the fall of the Iron Curtain.”
How does that possibly compensate all the Polish Jews the German government murdered?
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East Germany was the Russian buffer that Putin is trying to reestablish in Ukraine.
Germany paid no reparations
Absorbing a cheaper workforce without a culture/language barrier was not paying 1992-2012 the german GDP expanded in amazing ways. The Germans being an active NATO partner and not being a hindrance to the new NATO members like Poland on the world stage would be a reasonable payback.
Putting 25k German troops on heightened alert and doing the NATO mission would be a start. So far they might have 5k Germans forces ready for the next step.
A thought: 50% discount if Putin stumps up the other 50% - after all, far less than half of the suffering of Poland is attributable to six years of Nazi Germany.
Putin should consider it a good deal, because it’s still a lot cheaper than paying all the reparations for all the atrocities committed by the USSR at the behest of his hero J Stalin over more than two decades.
Since 2000, United States "projection" of power has begun wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and many so-called "drone wars" in Sudan, Yemen and elsewhere.
Of Poland's concern is Germany's "bill" as the article says "Berlin will likely find uncomfortable and has so far seemingly tried to ignore..." this.
Given the above, one wonders when the world's nations at large might begin to make similar demands that our "wars" on terror caused damages which have costs to be repaid. Once the game is afoot, who won't play?
Will the democrats pay reparations to citizens in the future for what they’re doing to the US now ?
World War 3 is germinating.
Any Germans who were involved in the invasion should be liable. Not their descendants.
Where do they stop? What about Mongolia? Don’t they owe reparations to Russia and Eastern Europe? Britain invaded France several times centuries ago. They should pay. And the Norman Conquest. I guess they can deduct that from Britain’s bill. Heck Norway owes everybody in Europe for the Viking invasions.
So many looters and moochers.
If Germany wants to set an example they should give me a few million bucks. Sure I wasn’t alive during WW2 but I think it would be a nice gesture
> Once the game is afoot, who won’t play? <
Right. Consider Vietnam for example. That was essentially a civil war that we got caught up in. Who owes reparations to whom there?
No… rebuilding half of their own country does not absolve them of what they owe otters.
What game is Poland playing?
It seems a certain faction of Polish politics wants war with Russia, and wants disharmony with Germany as well.
I can’t see that working out well.
Yeah. Reparations for WW1 went great. Let’s do it again.
Germany paid almost 8 billion dollars (in 1992 dollars) to Polish individuals who suffered as a result of the war and their survivors.
Also, look at a map! A good 40% of Polish territory today was German before WW2. If you look at the map from before WW1, the percentage is even larger.
Poland didn't grow appreciably because a lot of territory was taken from her on her eastern border and incorporated by the Soviets into Belarus and Ukraine, but that's not Germany's fault.
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East Germany and Poland was the Russian buffer that Putin is trying to reestablish.
Don't forget that the Soviet Russians occupied both East Germany and Poland post WWII. Any reparations owed to Poland post-war were made out of East Germany's assets as distributed by the Soviets.
East Germany was a hollow shell of a country, riddled in poverty and debt (albeit better off than most Soviet satellite countries at the time) when West Germany reunified with East Germany.
If we are discussing it, one may be sure it is being discussed farther afield than mere anonymous us.
I imagine calls for reparations will be like drops of rain in a good storm, eventually. You owe us because.... And so on.
Don't forget that East Germany and Poland were both Soviet Bloc countries post WWII.
The Soviets controlled the transfer of wealth from East Germany to Poland as they saw fit.
My hope is that Hitler and Clemenceau are permanently chained together in Hell.
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