Poland formally demands €1.3T from Germany in WWII reparations

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3 pointsmarban2 comments

I think this is a dupe? I assume Poland is demanding similar reparations from Russia (as successor to the ussr) for the deaths and partitioning that occurred? Given that Poland was “moved west” as an outcome of the war, Germany should demand its lost territory back that is now in Poland. Poland can go to Russia to get its lost territory back so as to restore the pre wwii borders.

Or, Germany and Poland can call it a wash and Poland can go after Russian to settle its issues with the ussr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Conference

That is exactly what you write. It was agreed on that Poland was moved to the west, and that any claims to reimbursements would have to be addressed to the Soviet Union. Given that Poland has accepted and insisted on the movement to the west, as witnessed by the border treaty [1],the question remains why Polish leaders never had the guts to demand reparations from the Soviet Union.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Polish_Border_T...

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