No compensation for WWII, communism is unacceptable: PiS leader

Jarosław Kaczyński was responding to suggestions that Poland should ask Jewish communities to back the country’s efforts for reparations for damages caused by Germany during World War II, which would include the losses of Poland's Jewish community of the time.

Some Jewish groups have demanded compensation from Poland for assets that were destroyed in the war or later confiscated by Poland’s communist authorities.

But Kaczyński told Gazeta Polska that Poland would not pay for damages caused by Germany and the Soviet Union and that Poland was yet to receive war reparations.

“We cannot accept a situation in which we did not receive compensation not only for German atrocities but also for the effects of the USSR’s actions against Poland, which were approved by the West,” Kaczyński said.

Late last September, under Kaczyński’s party’s initiative, a parliamentary committee was set up to estimate how much Germany owed Poland for World War II damages.

But experts from Berlin have said that Poland’s claims that it is owed compensation are unjustified. (vb)

Source: PAP