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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 366

German-Polish relations

A man with a Polish flag places flowers after a wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the Nazi-German invasion of Poland and the beginning of WWII, 75-years ago, at the memorial to Polish soldiers in Berlin, September 1, 2014. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
August 29, 2023, 3:18 pm
Germany presents plans for joint house to commemorate Polish victims of World War II
Planned memorial in Berlin to mark violent deaths of more than 5 million of Poland’s citizens, including some 3 million Jews
By Kirsten Grieshaber
File: A view of a MiG-29 aircraft at Sliac Air Base, in Sliac, Slovakia, February 29, 2008. (Jozef Durník/TASR via AP)
April 13, 2023, 8:06 pm
Germany signs off on Polish fighter jet shipment to Ukraine
Berlin gives green light for Warsaw to re-export five Mig-29s that previously belonged to the East German military
By AFP
German troops carrying a Nazi flag enter the Polish town of Lodz, October 9, 1939. (AP Photo/Pool/Paramount News)
January 3, 2023, 11:54 pm
Germany rejects Poland’s request for $1.4 trillion in WWII reparations, says Warsaw
Poland wants compensation for damage caused by Nazi occupation, taking the matter to the UN
By AP
German soldiers try to dislodge snipers in Warsaw during the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939 in World War II. (AP Photo)
October 3, 2022, 3:51 pm
WWII: Poland officially seeks $1.3t from Germany, including for Jews killed by Poles
Formal demand for reparations over Nazi German occupation signed by Warsaw’s foreign minister; Berlin has said it considers the matter settled
By AP and ToI Staff
German soldiers search rubble in Westerplatte for Polish survivors in Danzig, Poland on September 2, 1939. (AP Photo)
September 1, 2022, 9:57 pm
Germany rebuffs Polish demand for huge WWII reparations: ‘Issue is closed’
Berlin points to 1953 decision by Warsaw to renounce claims against East Germany; Polish opposition parties dismiss government’s claim as a domestic political ploy
By Bernard OSSER
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, and Polish President Andrzej Duda, left, attend ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of World War II, in Wielun, Poland, Sept. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 1, 2019, 9:23 am
Germany asks for Poland’s forgiveness 80 years after WWII outbreak
‘We want to remember and we will remember,’ says Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Polish city of Wielun, where first World War II bombs fell 80 years ago
By Anna Maria Jakubek
In this August 15, 2018, photo, a group of US Army soldiers take part in an annual military parade celebrating Polish Army Day in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File)
February 11, 2019, 4:49 pm
With Mideast meeting, Poland woos Trump but risks other ties
As Warsaw hopes to host US troops and be a bridge between Europe and Washington, many in Europe grow wary of its close ties to the current US administration
By Vanessa Gera
Signs in eight languages at the site of the Sobibor death camp in Poland. (Flickr/Sgvb)
December 27, 2018, 7:01 pm
Germany allocates $1.1 million for Sobibor museum
Permanent exhibition to open in 2020 at site of Nazi extermination camp, where as many as 300,000 Jews were killed in 1942-3
By Katarzyna Markusz
A woman looks at an exhibit in the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland, on Monday, January 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 1, 2018, 5:11 am
Poland computes it lost over 5 million people, $54 billion under Nazi occupation
Announcement of figures comes amid calls by nationalist government for German reparations over wartime damages
By AP
This file photo from July 29, 2016, shows the main gate of the former German Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 22, 2018, 9:54 pm
Auschwitz survivor to sue German broadcaster over ‘Polish death camp’ slip
After German court rejects suit, Karol Tendera, 97, hopes to take media outlet to Europe’s top court over description of Nazi camps
By AFP
The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Nazi Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)
August 21, 2018, 9:48 pm
German court says Poles can’t force apology over Auschwitz terminology
Judges say broadcaster ZDF’s correction and existing apology for using the term ‘Polish extermination camps’ sufficient
By AFP
Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Jacek Czaputowicz, left, speaks with German Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas, right, ahead of a Foreign Affairs minister meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on March 19, 2018. (JOHN THYS/AFP)
March 22, 2018, 11:30 pm
Poland puts Berlin’s WWII bill at 440 billion euros
Figure based on 1990 study that estimated there were a total of 13.2 million Polish victims of the Nazi occupation
By AFP
Illustrative: Flowers are placed at the memorial to Janusz Korczak who died in the gas chamber of the Treblinka Nazi German death camp in 1942 together with the children of the Jewish orphanage that he ran in the Warsaw Ghetto, at the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, March 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
March 2, 2018, 4:46 pm
Polish official: Germany may owe us $850 billion for WWII war crimes
Parliamentary team in Warsaw is working on potential reparations demand to compensate ‘for destroyed cities, villages and the lost demographic potential of our country’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Swastikas drawn on the gate of the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, found on February 18, 2018. (Israel Police)
February 18, 2018, 5:48 pm
Amid Holocaust quarrel, Polish embassy in Tel Aviv vandalized
Police launch investigation after swastikas, anti-Polish slurs scrawled on facility’s gates
By ToI Staff
In this Jan. 25, 2017 file photo, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, center, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice party, speaks with lawmakers in parliament in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
September 30, 2017, 10:08 pm
Poland tasks lawmakers with estimating German war reparations
Germany has refused to consider paying damages over WWII, saying issue was settled in 1953 agreement signed by then-communist Poland
By AFP
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