Published on: 01/09/2022 – 22:37 Poland estimated the financial cost of World War II losses at 1.3 trillion euros on Thursday, with the president of the ruling party saying he would “demand Germany to negotiate these reparations”. Berlin rejected this request, considering that this question was “closed”. Warsaw demands compensation, Berlin refuses. Poland on Thursday (September 1st) estimated the financial cost of World War II losses at 1.3 trillion euros (6.2 trillion zlotys), with the ruling party chairman saying he would “ask the ‘Germany to negotiate these reparations’. This figure was communicated during a conference devoted to the presentation of a report on the losses of Poland during the Second World War. Of this total ‘a very important part is the compensation for the deaths of more than 5.2 million Polish citizens,” said Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, adding that the process before Poland receives these reparations would be “long and difficult”. . According to the report, the material losses are estimated at 170 billion euros (800 billion zlotys). Germany on Thursday rejected these requests for compensation, considering that this question was “closed”. “The position of the federal government has not changed, the issue of reparations is closed,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Poland renounced further reparations a long time ago, in 1953, and has confirmed this renunciation several times,” he added. “The Germans have done us enormous damage” since coming to power. in 2015, PiS often highlighted the issue of reparations. Work on this report was started in 2017. “We not only prepared a report, which is an open document and will certainly be completed, but we also took a decision, a decision on further action, Jaroslaw added. Kaczynski, and this action is to ask Germany to negotiate these reparations. And this is a decision that we will implement “The Germans invaded Poland and caused us enormous damage. The occupation was unbelievably criminal, unbelievably cruel and caused effects which in many cases continue to this day,” the PiS chairman said. Polish conservatives dispute the German version, according to which Poland renounced war reparations in 1953. With AFP