The Polish Government has demanded Germany pay up reparations following the trail of death and destruction by the Nazi Party five decades ago.
Poland’s national conservative government party PiS, has set up a parliamentary committee to determine the amount Poland claims is owed by Germany.
PiS chief Jaroslaw Kaczynski accused his counterparts in Germany of withdrawing from responsibilities for the Second World War.
A committee has now been formed as the Poles say the issue is yet to be resolved.
The Communist Polish leadership declared the issue resolved in 1953 but it was cracked back open by the current leaders at the end of July.
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Poland said the 1953 statement was made under Soviet pressure
Polish lawmakers Arkadiusz Mularczyk and Jozef Menes are claiming Poland had not relinquished its right to war compensation from Germany after finding a UN document from 1969.
Arkadiusz Mularczyk told the Polish parliamentary agency PAP the committee will be tasked with looking into the “estimated sum that Germany owes Poland”.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said Warsaw made a legally binding decision in 1953.
Warsaw was all but reduced to rubble in the Second World War when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union attacked.
Under the Nazi occupation, six million Poles were killed, of which three million had Jewish roots.
Polish President Beata Szydlo said in September the Government “will officially submit its position on the reparation issue once the political decision has been taken”.
Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski had previously categorised the claims to be about € 840 billion, but he also thought a trillion euros would be conceivable.
The first meeting of the special committee will be held during the next session of the Polish Lower House of Parliament (Sejm), on October 10-13.