renewed <\/a>his country’s demand for World War II reparations from Germany, arguing that the money could be used to strengthen Poland’s military and European security.<\/p>\nNawrocki made the remarks at Westerplatte in Gda\u0144sk during commemorations marking the 87th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II on September 1.<\/p>\n
He called on the German chancellor to resolve the long-running dispute over reparations, framing compensation not only as a matter of historical justice but also as an investment in Europe’s current security.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe world has put us in a situation where a real, firm declaration of alliance toward Poland requires our allies and neighbors in Berlin to pay us compensation, which Poland will allocate to its armed forces,\u201d Nawrocki said.<\/p>\n
He argued that such funding could reduce Poland’s need to rely on Western loans while helping strengthen what he described as the country’s role as NATO’s \u201cfortress in the east.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nawrocki also criticized Germany over what he described as insufficient recognition of Polish suffering during World War II.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a real alliance and real friendship if we cannot erect a monument to Polish victims of World War II in Berlin,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Polish president also argued that German hostility toward Poland predated Adolf Hitler, citing anti-Polish attitudes among German writers in the 19th century and during the Weimar Republic.<\/p>\n
Poland’s former Law and Justice-led government previously demanded about \u20ac1.3 trillion in reparations from Germany for losses suffered during World War II.<\/p>\n
Berlin has repeatedly rejected the demand, maintaining that the issue of reparations has been legally settled and that there is no basis for further claims.<\/p>\n
Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, beginning World War II in Europe. Westerplatte, where Polish troops resisted a German attack for seven days, became one of the best-known symbols of the country’s defense against the invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polish President Karol Nawrocki renewed his country’s demand for World War II reparations from Germany, arguing that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9282,417,419,9,6962],"class_list":["post-23499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-adolf-hitler","tag-germany","tag-karol-nawrocki","tag-poland","tag-reparations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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