At this point, it’s like “reparations”.
Is Poland going to give land back?
Of course, with the mere mention of reparations, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the NAACP, et al., immediately demand their cut.
Germany is a sucker if they pay them. WW2 was 80 years ago.
Ridiculous...those that perpetuated the war are dead and gone. Germany was reduced to rubble for the most part. You cannot visit the sins of the father on the son...
World War 2 came about in large part due to onerous reparations owed by Germany for an earlier conflict.
Poland: we demand WWII compensation of $1.3 trillion
Germany: sorry, we spent it on green-energy. Go ask FJB. He may want 200K soldiers’ lives, but he’s got the cash.
Germany should demand reparations from Poland and Lithuania for their invasion of 1410.
The entire world has gone mad. Is anyone still alive who survived WW II? Their grandkids suddenly want reparations.
Greece suffered a lot as a result of the German invasion and occupation (which happened because Hitler felt he had to come to Mussolini’s aid after the Italians weren’t able to conquer Greece on their own), but nowhere near on the scale of Poland. 6 million Poles died in WWII (half of them Jews, half of them Catholics).
Good luck with that. It took them almost 100 years to pay off their WWI reparations.
What’s next? Reparations against the Ottomans for conquering Constantinople...
Thats pretty much what happened after WW1. Germany had to pay the Allies reparations for the war. Twenty years later, Germany visited Warsaw and Paris as they weren’t particularly happy about being stuck with the bill for a war that everyone had a hand in.
So I say Poland should play the Reparations Card.
How much are they demanding from Russia?
Have the Russians paid anything for Katyn Forest and 45 years of Communist oppression? Not denying the horrific atrocities, beginning with an unprovoked war, committed by Germany. But reparation demands are a slippery slope. Go back far enough and everybody has ancestral monsters.
It worked out so well last time..
Poland: largest net recipient of EU subsidies.
Germany: largest net contributor to EU subsidies.
Net gain to Poland since 2004: 250+ billion euros.
Greatest error ever: EU expansion to accept Eastern European loser countries.
Fact!