“The information campaign is underway. Soon abridged versions of the report will be circulating all over the world”, wrote deputy foreign minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk on Twitter. He announced a fortnight ago that Poland must “take an informative action in Western Europe and the US in order to convince our partners, societies, politicians, that Germany has not accounted for the war and has erased its past”.

Polish diplomacy has already begun to act internationally and is attempting to internationalise the efforts to seek compensation from Germany. Letters and detailed information on the matter have been sent to many international organisations, including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, UNESCO, as well as to 50 countries – members of the Council of Europe, NATO and the European Union.

Abridged versions of the report containing several hundred pages, have also already been sent to representatives of the US Congress.

At the end of January/beginning of February, Deputy Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk is planning a visit to the United States. The politician wants to meet with congressmen, senators and the Polish community on the issue of German reparations to Poland.

At the beginning of the year, German diplomacy responded to a note from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated 3 October 2022 concerning reparations for Polish losses suffered as a result of German aggression and occupation during World War II. According to the German government, the issue of reparations and compensation for war losses is closed and the German government does not intend to enter negotiations on the matter.

The Jan Karski Institute for War Losses has launched a website: https://straty-wojenne.pl/, where the results of the work of the team led by Deputy Minister Mularczyk can be viewed and the report on Polish war losses can be downloaded in Polish and English.

Adrian Andrzejewski