Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has confirmed that her country counts on military reparations from Germany.

"This is a reminder of justice for our country, which was a victim of World War II," Polskie Radio quotes the Premier as saying.

Szydlo noted that Poland did not receive adequate compensation for the damage inflicted during the war. "This damage was not reimbursed to us in any way – just the opposite. Speaking of reparations today, we are reminded of justice and of what Poland is due," the head of the Polish government said.

Currently, the analytical bureau of the Polish Sejm is working on an assessment of the possibility of a legal case for obtaining compensation. The task of the Bureau is to establish how and in what form reparations could be recovered from Germany. In addition, the experts should find out whether other countries that suffered from Nazi Germany during World War II demanded compensation for the losses they incurred. The assessment will be presented in September.

Berlin insists that the question of reparations has long since been finally settled. In 1953 Poland voluntarily refused reparations from Germany for damage suffered during the war. These agreements have a binding nature from the point of view of international law, recall German politicians.

The Polish Minister of Defense, Antoni Macierewicz, rejected these arguments. He stated that "A colony, called the Polish People's Republic, refused part of the reparations connected with a puppet state called the German Democratic Republic," and that the present Polish state did not give up what is due to it.

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