During World War II, we suffered huge losses as a result of war destruction, as a result of ordinary German barbarity, the theft of our country, but above all as a result of the loss of population - said Andrzej Duda in Wieluń, indicating that the value of Polish losses estimated by experts is over PLN 6.2 trillion.
The President at the meeting of the Council for Local Government of the National Development Council, photo: KPRP
The President participated in a meeting of the Council for Local Government of the National Development Council on the subject of reparations for losses suffered by Poland and Poles due to the unlawful and unprovoked German attack on Poland in 1939 and the subsequent German occupation.
The away meeting of the Council, which took place at the Wieluń Land Museum, was organized on the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. In the morning, the President of the Republic of Poland took part in ceremonies in Wieluń commemorating the outbreak of World War II.
The President noted that the lion's share of the estimated amount are the losses we have suffered in human substance - "in that we lost over 5 million citizens, a wonderful social fabric, many young people who were then the wonderful, great future of the Republic of Poland".
This is in fact the greatest loss that Poland suffered during World War II as a result of German aggression – this enormous human loss, which is extremely difficult to estimate, and which for decades, to this day, has been an unhealed wound on the chest of our society – emphasized Andrzej Duda.
He assessed that the issue of material compensation for the destruction that Nazi Germany committed during World War II is still unresolved.
The President drew attention to the honest admission by the German side of guilt for World War II, including for the tragedy that Wieluń suffered. – We heard the word “sorry” many times, we heard many requests for forgiveness, and in a human, Christian sense, I think that most Poles forgave – he said.
But – as he pointed out – regardless of forgiveness, compensation is due, compensation is due for what was irretrievably destroyed. – And this is a natural issue and it never happened – he said.
He also assessed that it cannot be said that the benefits paid by the Federal Republic of Germany through the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation to those who worked as forced labour in the Third Reich constitute real compensation.
source – KPRP
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