Germany has maintained its financial obligations from the war are settled. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WARSAW - Poland's ruling nationalist party issued a controversial demand for World War II compensation from Germany, saying destruction wrought by the Nazis caused damage worth about US$1.3 trillion.
The long-delayed report on wartime losses by the ruling Law & Justice party was unveiled yesterday in Warsaw on the 83rd anniversary of Adolf Hitler's invasion that triggered World War II. "We can't simply accept it and move on, just because someone believes that somehow Poland stands lower than other countries."
The barbed language has escalated. At a political rally last month, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Germans are"the descendants of destroyers and criminals" who must compensate Nazi victims to finally"turn the page" on their horrific history. "With elections a year away, Law & Justice doesn't have many good ways to prop up its popularity, so it must go on the offensive and identify an enemy - and Germany is a good candidate for one."Norway inaugurates memorial to 77 killed by neo-Nazi killer in 2011
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