During Tuesday’s session, the Wieluń City Council unanimously passed a resolution on reparations, reparations and compensation for the losses Poland suffered as a result of the German invasion and subsequent occupation.
This is probably the first resolution of this type passed by the country’s city council. All fourteen councilors who took part in the vote were in favor of its adoption.
The effect of the visit of the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
As PiS councilor Tomasz Akulicz admitted in an interview with PAP, this is, among other things, the effect of Friday’s visit to Wieluń by Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk and his call for local government officials in the country to accept such initiatives.
At today’s session, together with a group of PiS councillors, as well as PSL and the Friendly Commune, we tabled a draft resolution on reparations, reparations and compensation for Poland’s losses as a result of the German invasion and subsequent occupation. The resolution passed with a happy ending. This is a rather symbolic gesture, especially on the eve of the next anniversary of the outbreak of World War II in Wieluń, the first Polish city to be hit by German bombs on September 1, 1939. Most of the city was destroyed
– added Akulicz, who was part of the drafting group of the resolution.
As indicated in the motion for a resolution, reference is made to the resolution adopted in September last year. a resolution adopted by the Sejm on the claim of compensation by Poland for the damage caused by Germany during the Second World War and a resolution of the Council of Ministers on the need to address the question of reparations, damages and compensation in Polish-German relations to settle what Poland and Poland suffered as a result of Germany’s illegal attack on Poland in 1939 and the subsequent German occupation.
It was emphasized that this is an expression of support for actions aimed at obtaining compensation from Germany for Poland for the damage caused as a result of the unleashing of the Second World War by the Third German Reich.
The resolution indicated that the city of Wieluń, the first victim of the war initiated by Germany, was badly hit by aggression and then by the German occupation.
As a result of the Second World War, we suffered enormous material and immaterial losses, the infrastructure was destroyed: residential and public buildings, industrial installations, cultural monuments and museum collections. There are also huge human losses. Therefore, we have every right to demand that the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany unequivocally assume moral, political, historical, legal and financial responsibility for the damages and losses caused
– marked.
Mularczyk: A symbolic decision!
Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk referred to the case on Twitter.
A symbolic decision!
– wrote the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Wieluń City Council, possibly as the first in Poland, passed a resolution on support for reparations, compensation and compensation for the losses Poland suffered as a result of the German invasion and subsequent occupation
he noticed.
Bombs on Wielun
September 1, 1939 from 4.40. by the 14th, 380 bombs with a total weight of 46 tons fell on Wieluń. According to various sources, between 1,200 and more than 2,000 people died as a result of the Luftwaffe attack. people. 75% of it lay in ruins. urban buildings.
Before the war, Wieluń had about 16,000 inhabitants. inhabitants and was 21 km from the German border. At the time of the German attack, no Polish Army units were stationed there, nor were there any air defense positions. Not only from a military point of view, but also from an economic point of view, it was not an important target for the Luftwaffe. There were no industrial plants in it, no major lines of communication passed through it. According to historians, the city was bombed to test the equipment and to intimidate the civilian population.
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Source: wPolityce