Important decision! Pozna city councilors took a stand on reparations: duty and responsibility to generations of Poles

Pozna city councilors took a position in Pozna on compensation for damage caused by Germany and the USSR during World War II. “Presenting this matter clearly and unequivocally is our duty and responsibility to the generations of Poles, residents of Wielkopolska who have lost the chance for normal development” – underlined.

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20 councilors voted for the position during the session; one person abstained.

The position indicated that the Pozna City Council, referring to its decision of February 3, 2004, which resulted in the publication in 2008 of the “Report on War Losses in Pozna 1939 – 1945”, compiled by a team of 21 people led by Prof. . . Andrzej Saksona of the Institute of Western Affairs, and the resolution of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland of September 14, 2022, adopted on political division, expresses his support for Poland in seeking compensation for damage caused by Germany during World War II.

Pozna is a city that was badly hit by aggression and then by the German occupation. As a result of the Second World War, we suffered enormous material and intangible losses – the city infrastructure was destroyed: residential and public buildings, industrial installations, cultural monuments and museum collections

– given.

Huge human losses

The position also highlighted the enormous human losses and displacements and recalled that it was in Pozna that the first German concentration camp in Poland – Fort VII – was established – mainly for the extermination of the inhabitants of the capital of Greater Poland.

Therefore, we have every right to demand that the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany assume unequivocal moral, political, historical, legal and financial responsibility for the destruction of Pozna.

– it was written.

It was also stressed that the Pozna City Council “expects the Government of the Republic of Poland to resolutely conduct diplomatic bilateral talks in order to obtain an appropriate response from the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, which satisfies the requirements of justice and truth. We also expect similar, decisive actions from the Government of the Republic of Poland in demanding that the Russian Federation assume political, historical, legal and financial responsibility for all the consequences caused in the Republic of Poland and the citizens of the Republic of Poland as a result of the unleashing of the Second World War by the Third German Reich and the USSR – Union Soviet Socialist Republics”.

In the adopted position, the councilors stressed that “making this matter clear and unambiguous is our duty and responsibility to generations of Poles, residents of Wielkopolska who lost the chance for normal development, their relatives and often lost the entire legacy of their lives”.

mly / PAP