(ANSA-AFP) - WARSAW, SEP 1 - Poland's government on Thursday
estimated the financial cost of World War II losses to be 1.3
trillion euros (dollars) and said it would "ask Germany to
negotiate these reparations". "It is a major sum of 6.2
trillion" zloty, Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head
of the ruling Law and Justice party, said, adding that receiving
reparations would be a "long and difficult" process. Kaczynski
was speaking at a conference dedicated to the presentation of a
report on Poland's losses in the 1939-1945 war. Since coming to
power in 2015, Poland's governing Law and Justice (PiS) party
has often championed the issue of war reparations. Work on the
reparations report began in 2017, when the conservative
government insisted that Germany had a "moral duty" in the
matter. Germany has often rejected Poland's claims, pointing to
a 1953 decision by Poland to renunciate reparation claims
against East Germany. (ANSA-AFP).
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