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    German ambassador says Polish opposition “helping Putin” with WWII reparations claims

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    1. Themetalin on

      The German ambassador to Poland, Miguel Berger, has told a member of the national-conservative opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party that their demands for Germany to pay war reparations stoke “divisions that help only Putin”.

      His comments prompted an angry response from PiS figures, as well as from the head of PiS-aligned President Karol Nawrocki’s foreign-policy office. They pointed out that it was Germany which for years pursued closer relations with Moscow and made Europe more reliant on Russian energy.

    5. Bigcockrooster997 on

      Typical german behavior, worst people I met alongside russians. Last I checked forgiveness must come from victim not opressor. 

    6. OVTB on

      This is true, while I can respect the sentiment of wanting reparations, if you’re demanding them from Germany exclusively and omitting Russia, you clearly have an agenda that isn’t in Polish national interests.

    7. onskaj on

      So Poland demanding reparations from Germany for:
      – **murdering** Poles
      – **bombarding** Polish cities
      – **executing** Polish intelligence on a mass scale
      – forcing people into **slave labour**
      – **stealing** gold, jewellery and cultural and artistic goods

      … is somehow “helping Putin”? Mr. Miguel Berger should immediately become persona non grata in Poland.

    8. Elektrycerz on

      This might be a bold claim, but I’d say the USSR did more damage to Poland in 50 years (1939-1989) than the 3rd Reich did in 5 (1939-1944). So yeah, they’re kind of right.

    9. Ilikebatterfield4 on

      Gówno clickbait. Kontekst wypowiedzi tego chłopa z obrazka polega na tym, że “kłótnie” pomiędzy Polską a Niemcami pomagają putinowi. Na zasadzie zgoda buduje, niezgoda rujnuje. Ha tfu za clickbait

    11. HopelessAutist01 on

      Look at that smug face, that’s a type of look that tells “you didn’t get shit from us for 80 years and you won’t get shit from us for the next 80 years”

    14. Quiet_Secretary9490 on

      As someone from germany with a family from poland (who doesnt fully understand these claims either):
      Why are polish politicians / news article about them so obsessed about reparation claims? Isn’t this finally settled since at least 30 years?

    16. analogiczny on

      After all, the Red Army, on Stalin’s orders, did not enter Warsaw in 1944. The USSR took over the entire amount of German war reparations for Poland. On August 23, 1953, the government of the People’s Republic of Poland waived further reparations (the existing ones had been paid to Poland in goods, including several million copies of works by Lenin and other communist theorists, two and a half thousand BMW 250 motorcycles, a number of railway wagons, and chemicals for industry). In the 21st century, I find it absurd to explain that more than 70 years ago, decisions to waive German reparations were made in the Kremlin and that claims should be directed to Berlin instead of Moscow.