Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk said on Wednesday that Poland sent a diplomatic note to all EU countries, NATO and the Council of Europe on war reparations from Germany.

“Today, on my initiative, a diplomatic note will be sent to all countries of the Council of Europe, the European Union, NATO countries, our key partners and friends in the world, in which we will inform about our previous diplomatic note to Germany, the rationale for this note, why we sent it”, the deputy minister said.

The note, he added, is expected to include information about Germany’s failure to account for Poland’s losses during World War II, its failure to return looted works of art, cultural assets, banking resources, and its failure to compensate Polish citizens harmed by German aggression.

“Germany does not want either to discuss this issue, does not want to conclude an international agreement, and there is no judicial path for the victims. We will systematically inform international opinion about this”, Mularczyk noted.

He stressed that the note is intended as an instrument to explain to international opinion in the world, and above all to diplomats, politicians, people interested in human rights issues, lawyers working on international law, that “the topic is unresolved, that it concerns the European, international rule of law, human rights”.

Poland is demanding compensation from Germany for tangible and intangible losses in the amount of 6.220.609 million PLN, compensation for the victims of German aggression and occupation and their families for the damage and harm caused to them, as well as systemic measures to return the cultural property looted from Poland during the war, which is now in Germany. To date, Germany has not responded to Poland’s note on war reparations.

Arkadiusz Slomczynski