Sikorski made it clear. That's how he determined the chances of reparations from Germany

The head of the MFA Radosław Sikorski referred straight to the issue of war reparations from Germany. The head of the MFA assessed that there was no real chance of obtaining compensation from Berlin.


– Here we just have a difference of opinion. Unfortunately, the government believes that the reparations that were granted to Poland in Potsdam "were stolen" by russian Russia. And the president thinks he's gonna get those reparations. We want you luck, but we think that unfortunately the case is hopeless," said MFA head Radosław Sikorski in "Question of the Day" on TVP Info.

Sikorski thinks that the issue of reparation looks "wow"

– His predecessor failed for 10 years. The Law and Justice government did not even ask for reparations for 8 years, so he took (Nawrocki-red.) on himself a large responsibility. Congratulations on your courage – said Sikorski.



Let us callback what the president said on the anniversary of planet War II. “To build a truth-based partnership, we request to settle the issue of reparations from Germany, which I request as president of Poland”, said Karol Nawrocki on September 1.

"Reparations will not be an alternate to historical amnesia, but Poland as a front-end state, as the most crucial state of the east flank of NATO, needs both justice and truth, and clear relations with Germany, but besides needs a reparation from the German state," he said.

He besides called for government support on this matter. "I believe that the Prime Minister and the Polish Government will strengthen the President's voice on the global phase and we will build our real safe future together with our western neighbours," he said.

What does the issue of reparation from Germany look like under the law?

In 1953, the then Polish communist authorities waived all claims for war reparations under force from the russian Union, who wanted to free East Germany, besides the russian satellite, from all obligations. The PiS, however, claims that the agreement is invalid due to the fact that communist Poland was incapable to negociate fair compensation.

To this argument, experts of global law answer that yet all claims have expired by 12 September 1990 at the latest. That's the day the Treaty 2+4 was signed in Moscow. It is colloquially called this due to the fact that the Moscow negotiations were attended by Germany divided into Germany and the GDR, and 4 Allied powers – the USA, the USSR, the United Kingdom and France.

On peculiar terms, the treaty was besides partially negotiated by Poland. The free and democratic III of Poland confirmed the decision from the 1950s.