President Zbigniew Bogucki, head of the Chancellery of President, powerfully criticized Prime Minister Donald Tusk's proposition that in the absence of Berlin's decision Poland should pay compensation for the victims of German crimes. He considered it a "fatal idea", comparing it to a situation where a household would gotta pay compensation alternatively of an accident perpetrator.
Tusk during a gathering with German Chancellor Friedrich Merzem touched on the rather of compensations to 50,000 people – inactive surviving victims of the Second War Polish citizens. On the occasion, a curiosity declaration was made that if Germany did not react, the government would consider covering benefits from Polish funds: – If we do not get a fast and unambiguous declaration, I will consider the decision next year that Poland will meet this request with its own resources – said the Prime Minister.
Bogucki rejected the explanation that it was force on Berlin: "It's like saying that individual who suffered in an accident, for compensation to this man, is not to submit to the perpetrator of the accident or the perpetrator of the assault, but to submit to his family," stressed the head of the President's Chancellery. He besides accused the Prime Minister of a "capitulation" against earlier declarations by German Chancellors that reparations were impossible. He besides emphasized the "moral and legal responsibility" of Germany for wartime demolition of Poland.
Referring to the last return of medieval papers and sculptures of St James, Bogacki considered it insufficient. He pointed out that the auctions inactive show up goods robbed during the war, and the real act of reconciliation would be to surrender all the looted goods.
