Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come, when you do call for them?
― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1
One (unwritten) issue is when agreements were made previously, Poland was not free, and under the control of the USSR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_reparations#Poland
Great. Germany and Poland will be again at war.
Europe is in the middle of disintegration of its own doing.
These countries are run by morons.
Will Poland also ask for its territory back that was kept by Belarus and Ukraine? What about compensation for all the years of occupation by the Soviets and the deaths in the fighting after WWII against the Soviets?
Will Poland sue Mad Magazine for the Official Polish/Italian Joke Book from my youth?
I’m generally on the side of the Poles in most things but this.....guys....this is not productive. All this stuff was laid to rest years ago. It happened. It was awful. But dredging it up yet again right now serves no purpose.
Everybody as historical grievances against everybody else. The world can be a cold cruel place and lots of nasty shit has been done to innocent people. Like for example the 15 million Germans who suffered ethnic cleansing - the largest case of ethnic cleansing in history - at the end of WWII. An estimated 1 million of them died as a result. There were numerous instances of brutality toward civilians including robbery, mass rapes, cold blooded murder, etc. About half of what is now Poland used to be German land. German property owners who had their homes stolen from them were never compensated for the theft of their property. The same happened in the Sudetenland.
Let it go. Nothing good will come of this.
What is that after deducting the value of the German territory awarded to Poland after the war?