Germany rejects Poland’s claim it owes €1.3tn in war reparations

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[–]8thmonitor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Weird that Poland wants reparations. Poland is pro-EU and pro-NATO. Doesn't this hurt their relations with Germany?

[–]NeoRail 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

To my understanding, the Polish government likes to talk about reparations as a way to get back at Germany for putting pressure on them to reform their internal politics along more strictly liberal lines. Personally, I don't think this is an effective strategy at all, but maybe Polish statesmen believe that it has potential.

[–]asterias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Germany basically dictates EU financial policy and try to impose austerity upon other countries, while taking advantage of local corruption to make German firms richer (ie Siemens). However, after the war Germany asked other European countries to forfeit German loans so that the German economy could be restarted.

[–]NeoRail 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In this context, are you talking about the Second World War or the start of the current Russian-Ukrainian war?

[–]asterias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This happened in 1953 and 20 countries agreed so that German economy would get a kickstart:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Agreement_on_German_External_Debts