Prof. Stanisław ŻERKO

‘President Karol Nawrocki has announced that he will raise the subject of reparations during his talks in Berlin. Rightly so. Yet the word “reparations” is only a symbol and a rhetorical device that conceals a whole series of issues. In short, they can be summed up as the German compensation debt to Poland. President Nawrocki will demand redress for Poland’s suffering. And, I hope, he will dismantle the illusion of a deceptive Polish–German reconciliation established on German terms and, sadly, with the involvement of a fraction of the Polish elite,’.