Poland will not pay restitution to Jews who had their property taken during World War II because to do so would be akin to handing Adolf Hitler a victory, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said over the weekend.
“If someone says that Poland is to pay any compensation to anyone, we say: we do not agree to it!” Morawiecki said, according to Polish media. “If this terrible injustice will ever happen—when the executioner and victim roles were reversed—it would be Hitler’s posthumous victory.”
The comments were reportedly made in connection with a U.S. law that requires the State Department to inform Congress about how much progress countries are making towards the restitution of Jewish assets seized during World War II.
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