The Polish Government is ratcheting up its claims for billions of pounds in compensation for the horrors of WW2.
Jarosław Kaczyński, of the ruling Law and Justice Party, has been the driving force behind the demands, blasting Germany for any attempts to try and evade them.
Speaking to weekly editorial Sieci Prawdy, the 68-year-old politician underlined that this is not a lost cause for Poland.
He said: “I am not treating this as a hopeless financial case. I think that we have a good chance.
“We need to act incessantly, dividing the whole action into stages – now is the parliamentary stage.”
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Earlier in August the party leader mounted his “historic counteroffensive” against Germany, citing the country’s “refusal” to take responsibility for the war.
At the time, the Bureau of War Reparations flaunted a staggering £34.7 billion bill, but recently Foreign Minster Witold Waszczykowski said that Poland’s WW2 losses are in the $1 trillion (£744 billion) ballpark.
Mr Kaczyński reminded that the World War 2 losses amount to a lot more than just lost lives.
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Law and Justice leader Jarosław Kaczyński demands German war reparations
These people robbed, burgled, murdered… All of this needs to be described and needs comeuppance
He said: “These people robbed, burgled, murdered… All of this needs to be described and needs comeuppance. There is no reason why we should relinquish this.
“We cannot agree for all of the evil, and all of the crimes of the Second World War to be brought down to just the Holocaust. In essence, that is a racist assumption.”
“Death after all, is an individual matter – there is no such thing as a collective death.
“If anyone says that one person’s death is more or less important than another’s, then that is a racist assumption.”
Mr Kaczyński said that the matter will need to well thought out and solidly prepared before it is made an international issue.
He said: “Then we can move towards more concrete actions.”
However, not everyone in Poland is convinced that the government can successfully coerce Germany to pay out of its coffers.
At least 72.4 per cent of the country thinks the whole process will be futile, according to a recent IBRiS poll. Only one in five people think the Government will get its comeuppance.
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Adolf Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939
Critics have also pointed out that historically speaking, Poland officially rejected any payment from Germany in the post-war years.
Former Prime Minister Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, said: “Poland officially relinquished reparations.
“Of course in conditions where it did not have full control over its decisions, simply because it was done within the Soviet Union, which relinquished reparations from the German Democratic Republic.
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Germany dismissed the calls for war reparations as baseless
“It’s true that the circumstances were unclear, that there are no documents, but the point is that for the next 60 years, all concurrent governments – the Polish People’s Republic and the Republic of Poland – acted out in this way and never stood up with any claims.”
The calls for reparations have been met with resistance from Germany, accusing Poland of trying to ruin the relationship between the two neighbours.
A Bundestag committee investagitnting the matter also dismissed the claims as “baseless”.