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Warsaw Could Ask Germany for $1Trln in WWII Reparations - Polish Committee Chief

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WARSAW (Sputnik) - Arkadiusz Mularczyk, who heads the Polish parliamentary committee on reparations, said on Monday that he would soon submit a report that estimates losses incurred by Poland during the Second World War at around $1 trillion.

"This is a document that comprehensively assesses the losses incurred by Poland during World War Two … The government should decide what to do with this document," Mularczyk said.

Watch towers and the barbed wire fence of the former Nazi death camp Majdanek outside the city of Lublin in eastern Poland on Wednesday Nov. 9, 2005. Four camp survivors and documentary film makers dug up trinkets and personal items buried by Jews in the spring of 1943 after arriving from the Warsaw ghetto - Sputnik International
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He declined to name the exact figure but admitted, in an interview to the Tygodnik Sieci outlet, that its guess of "over a trillion" was close to the committee’s estimate.

This September, 1 marks 80 years since German troops occupied Poland in 1939. The lawmaker expressed hope that the Polish government would make the report public on that day.

Germany has repeatedly denied it owed Poland money after Warsaw waived all war reparations in 1953.

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