including by compensating the still-living Polish victims of Nazi crimes
I wonder how many those are. My grandpa was 9 when WW2 started and he died a couple of years ago at the high age of 86.
My grandfather was conscripted towards the end of WW2. He's 95 today. Still alive, though at that age, "any day now" is a reality.
The last relative I know of died about 20 years ago. She survived Auschwitz tho
Bless her.
There are still some people around. But yes they become fewer and fewer.
My Great Grandmother die 3 Years ago shortly before her 96st birthday.
Uhhhhhhh.......isn't it several decades too late for this? Seems like this should have happened in the 1950s.
There should be no statue of limitations for atrocities.
The Tulsa riot victims that are still alive are being denied compensation for similar reasons.
Better later than never.
Of course Germany already paid billions of Deutsche Mark and Euros to polish survivors over the years. Not that any amount could be sufficient, but it's not like Germany did not pay anything until now.
Relatively cheap virtue signalling (most of them are dead) with a side goal of reminding people the Holocaust happened and that's why Israel gets to do genocides.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected to announce measures to improve German-Polish relations — including by compensating the still-living Polish victims of Nazi crimes — during a visit to Warsaw on Tuesday.
“It is to be expected that the chancellor will announce that something will be done … for the people who suffered under German Nazi rule in Poland and who are still living and, for example, do not have adequate health insurance and experience poverty in old age,” Paul Ziemiak, the secretary general of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the country’s biggest opposition force in parliament, told POLITICO’S Berlin playbook podcast.
With the expected announcement, Scholz aims to further improve his country’s relations with Poland after Prime Minister Donald Tusk took office last year.
The countries’ relationship sharply deteriorated under the former Polish government, which was ruled by the populist right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party.
Scholz is expected to announce the initiatives during a press conference alongside Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Tuesday.
Security cooperation to deepen Germany’s support along the country’s eastern flank will be a key part of the consultations, according to a senior German official.
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A soap opera thanks to which Germany can avoid actual reparations and Tusk can announce "success" to his voters.
Germany already paid them a lot
Bereits erbrachte Zahlungen
Die von der Bundesregierung finanzierte Stiftung Polnisch-Deutsche Aussöhnung in Warschau zahlte seit ihrer Gründung 1992 zunächst 500 Millionen DM an polnische NS-Opfer aus, später folgten Zahlungen in Höhe von fast zwei Milliarden DM an noch lebende ehemalige Zwangsarbeiter.
Germany already paid 500 million DM to polish NS-victims and later nearly two billion DM to polish concentration camp survivors. (1992+)
They also got huge areas in the east of Germany (20% of Germany) and the German population was removed.
1957 Poland signed a treaty to stop reparation payments from West and East Germany.
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