Global Courant
By Ahmet Gencturk
ATHENS (AA) – Former Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos said on Tuesday that Germany should pay WWII reparations to Greece and Poland, according to Polish media.
“Germany is very apologetic for what it did during World War II, but that’s not enough. “Berlin should pay compensation,” he said.
According to the state-run news agency PAP, the event was organized by the Polish government and the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) and was held in Athens.
Pavlopoulos, who served as president from 2015 to 2020, noted that Greece and Poland had formally requested reparations from Germany for the war, demanding that Berlin “take responsibility for its actions”.
He warned against German opposition on the matter, arguing that the issue of compensation could be brought to an international court in the near future.
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“German authorities are very sensitive to the rule of law, but they say that when it comes to complying with the law, it’s a thing of the past,” he said.
Arkadiusz Mularczyk, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, said, “Poland suffered the greatest losses in the Second World War. Greece suffered enormous human and economic losses. It’s time to start talking about war reparations. Victims deserve compensation from the aggressor.”
Apart from Mularczyk and Pavlopoulos, the conference brought together politicians, lawyers and academics from Poland, Greece, Italy and Serbia.
Since 2015, various Greek politicians have claimed that Germany owes Greece €280 billion ($308 billion) in World War II reparations.
Germany has repeatedly claimed that the issue of compensation was resolved under previous international agreements.
Warsaw submitted a comprehensive report last September detailing the financial losses suffered during the war and its commitment to seek €1.3 trillion ($1.39 trillion) in compensation from Germany.
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