By claiming reparations, we claim the right to exist that was denied to our ancestors 84 years ago. We cannot allow this to be called into question again in the future, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a podcast published on social media.
“The evil that fed German bombers”
In a social media podcast posted Monday, Prime Minister Morawiecki referred to Friday’s celebration of the 84th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.
The beginning of the war, Wieluń, is a terrible crime. The Germans dropped 46 tons of bombs on the sleeping city, and in one day 75 percent of it was reduced to rubble. buildings, more than a thousand people died, civilians, because there was no military unit in the city, no military target that would justify this attack. From a tactical point of view, air raids on Wieluń were irrational, just as the evils fueling the German bombers at the time were irrational.
said the head of government.
As he noted, the future of the victims of the air raids was taken away and the survivors of the past were “imbued irretrievably in the rubble of cities.”
Today we have a duty to stand up for this burnt, destroyed future and past, we must guard against it and fight for it. As long as we care about their fate, we care about our existence. That is why we asked Germany for reparations so that justice would finally be served
noted Morawiecki.
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“It is impossible to destroy all those we remember”
According to the prime minister, “this opened up an opportunity for our western neighbor to close the darkest chapter in its history.”
It is impossible to destroy all those we remember, for whose name and dignity we fight. This right of remembrance applies to every victim of German crimes
emphasized the head of government.
He continued: “We have asked Germany for reparations, also because we must stand up for historical truth at a time when it finds fewer and fewer defenders.”
The PiS government ensures that the Polish-German reconciliation, based on forgiveness and real compensation for the terrible damage, is recorded in the historical memory of future generations
noted Morawiecki.
As the Prime Minister recalled, Germany agreed to pay compensation for the genocide committed in Namibia over a hundred years ago, and the Netherlands promised to return to Sri Lanka the works of art appropriated during the colonial period, as well as the to return cultural objects looted from Indonesia. .
The international community wants relations between states to be governed by law in the 21st century. There is no place for exploitation, domination, imperialism and hegemony
Morawiecki emphasized.
“The question of us ‘being or not being’”
That is why – as he noted – “by claiming reparations, we are claiming the right to exist, which was denied to our ancestors 84 years ago.”
We cannot allow this to be called into question again in the future
– added.
The request for reparations is not just a call to Germany for moral and political responsibility and not just a demand for historical truth in the international forum. It is simply an existential question, a matter of being or not being us
said the prime minister.
As he said, “If we didn’t do this, our independence would remain just an empty word and someone would be quick to undermine and insult it.”
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Source: wPolityce