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Thousands of Polish nationalists march to the U.S. Embassy, in Warsaw, yesterday
A FAR-RIGHT rally against the restitution of Jewish property confiscated during the second world war drew thousands of people onto the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw at the weekend.
Organisers claimed that the march from Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s office to the US embassy simply expressed the view that, as a victim of German invasion, the country should not have to offer compensation to the invasion’s victims and that Poland itself had never received reparations.
In fact, Poland received reparations from East Germany until waiving them in 1954. Victims of nazi slave labour camps received further payments from reunified Germany and Austria in the 1990s. Polish citizens in many areas participated in the mass murders of Jews that followed German invasion.
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