PiS chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski said yesterday that the statement by the head of the German Foreign Ministry, Annalena Baerbock, is “to say the least, unsatisfactory and completely baseless”. The German minister reiterated yesterday in Warsaw that the issue of war reparations for Poland is a closed file.

The day before (October 3), the head of Polish diplomacy Zbigniew Rau signed a diplomatic note on war reparations, which must be submitted to the German Foreign Office. The report on the losses suffered by Poland during the Second World War calculated that they exceeded 6 billion 220 billion PLN.

Baerbock: Repairs are closed, but we have a common future

Annalena Baerbock Referring yesterday (October 4) in Warsaw to the note issued by the Polish government, she reiterated that “the question of reparations from the point of view of the federal government is closed”.

“The good news is that we have a common future with our European Union, it is not only our life insurance, especially in these times, but it is our instrument for the future”, underlined the Head of the German Foreign Ministry.

She also assured that “Germany feels its historical responsibility without any limit” and that “the eternal task will be to remember the sufferings of millions of Poles inflicted by Germany”. Moreover, Baerbock admitted that it was “completely different suffering” from that which Germany caused in other countries, as it was linked to “the campaign of oppression, of Germanization, of sheer destruction”.

Kaczyński: It’s an attempt to build a barricade, but we’ll break it down

“We will raise this issue both in Germany and internationally, you can say worldwide, because this answer is – to say the least – unsatisfactory and completely unfounded,” Jarosław Kaczyński said on Polish radio in response. to a question about the statement. by the head of the German Foreign Office.

‘This is a totally non-substantial answer and it is characteristic that – if I understand what Ms Baerbock is saying – it applies to the entire note, which after all included many points’ , added the President of the PiS. According to him, “the first German response, that is to say an attempt to build such a barricade, now we will have to force this barricade”.

“I said from the start that it won’t be easy and that it will probably take a while, but we will go all the way,” he said.

President of the PiS: Germany will change its mind

According to Kaczyński, “a great campaign to make the world aware of what happened in Poland during the Second World War” is necessary, because – as he argued – outside Poland it is ” extremely exclusive knowledge”. According to him, even in Poland not everyone is aware of the extent of “crimes, cruelty, theft, completely thoughtless destruction, German barbarism”.

“To say that< nous n'en sommes pas responsables >> and that the case was closed with an otherwise meaningless statement in the “Trybuna Ludu” (the newspaper of the Polish United Workers’ Party – the ruling party in the Polish People’s Republic), because it has been thus, it is the proof of a profound lack of rules which should apply in the relations between States”, estimates the president of the PiS.

“After a while, Germany will see the consequences, very negative consequences for itself, of such attitudes and will change its mind,” predicted the leader of the ruling party.

The PiS President recalled that Germany had paid compensation to more than 70 countries, not only for the Second World War, but even for events prior to the First World War. “Namibia is such a good example of this, but they deny it to Poland, referring to events that had no legal significance and even from the point of view of the PRL law at the time, they were only media, i.e. without legal effects,” explained Kaczyński.

On the other hand, when asked about possible American help to obtain reparation, Kaczyński declared that “we will have to do it ourselves”. However, he did not exclude any coalition partner in this process, but made the reservation that he did not believe it was the United States. “These are other countries interested in compensation,” he said, citing the example of Greece.

Report on Polish war casualties

On September 1, in Warsaw, a report was presented on the losses suffered by Poland as a result of German aggression and occupation during World War II. The report states that Poland’s total losses amount to 6 trillion 220 billion 609 million PLN, or 1 trillion 532 billion 170 million dollars.