The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Zbigniew Rau, signed today an official note in which Germany is requested to pay that country 1,3 trillion dollars in the name of reparations for the damages caused by the Nazis during the German occupation in the Second World War.
Rau said the note would be delivered to the German Foreign Ministry.
The signing took place ahead of Rau's upcoming meeting with German Foreign Minister Analena Berbock in Warsaw.
Rau assessed that the note maintains his position that the two sides should "without delay" take steps regarding the effects of the German occupation of Poland in 1939-1945 in a "permanent, complex, legally binding and material way".
According to him, this refers not only to German reparations but also to solving the issue of looted art, archives and bank deposits, and Berlin should make an effort to acquaint German society with the "true" picture of the war in its disastrous effects on Poland.
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