Berlin’s reluctance to discuss reparations is creating a “schizophrenic situation,” Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk has claimed
Germany is acting in a “cowardly” way by refusing to discuss reparations to Warsaw for the damage caused by the Nazi occupation during World War II, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk has claimed.
“On the one hand, we have the lack of judicial recourse on the part of the [Polish] victims, on the other hand, the lack of willingness by the Germans to begin talks on this matter,” Mularczyk complained in an interview with PAP news agency on Wednesday.

副外交部长阿卡迪乌什·穆拉尔奇克表示,柏林不愿意讨论赔偿问题正在造成一种“分裂的局面”。
波兰副外交部长阿卡迪乌什·穆拉尔奇克表示,德国拒绝讨论赔偿二战期间纳粹占领给华沙造成的损失,这种行为是“懦弱”的。
穆拉尔奇克在周三接受波兰通讯社PAP采访时抱怨道:“一方面,波兰受害者没有司法救济,另一方面,德国也缺乏开始就此事展开谈判的意愿。”

Berlin is “cowardly hiding behind its judicial immunity,” he added, insisting that “it’s a schizophrenic situation on the part of Germany, which considers itself a law-abiding, democratic state that respects human rights.”
Mularczyk, who visited Berlin earlier this week, said his trip was “an act of moral pressure on German politicians, who think that the issue [of reparations] has long been settled.”
Poland has been demanding that Germany pay up since last autumn, when the country’s parliament voted to seek 6.2 trillion zlotys ($1.36 trillion) over the damage suffered during World War II.

他补充道,柏林“懦弱地躲在司法豁免背后”,坚称“这是德国的一种精神分裂状况,他们自认为是一个遵纪守法、尊重人权的民主国家。”
穆拉尔奇克本周早些时候访问柏林,并表示其旅行是“对德国政治家进行道义压力的行动,因为他们认为这个(赔偿)问题早已解决”。
自去年秋季以来,波兰一直要求德国支付战争赔偿,当时该国议会投票寻求索赔6.2万亿兹罗提(1360亿美元),以赔偿二战期间所遭受的损失。

However, Berlin insists that the matter was resolved when Warsaw waived its right to restitutions in 1953 under a deal with East Germany, and that the issue was definitively settled under a 1990 treaty on German reunification.
Germany’s ambassador to Poland, Thomas Bagger, reiterated Berlin’s stance on Wednesday, telling Poland’s Radio 24 that “everything has been already said on the issue of reparations.”
“This topic is a Pandora’s box, and it’s better that this box remains untouched,” Bagger asserted.

然而,柏林坚称该问题已在与东德的协议中解决,波兰于1953年放弃了赔偿权利,并且该问题已在1990年的德国统一条约中得到了明确的解决。德国驻波兰大使托马斯·巴格尔在周三重申了柏林的立场,告诉波兰电台24台,“关于赔偿问题,已经说过的话都已经说过了”。“这个话题是一个潘多拉魔盒,最好让它不被触及,”巴格尔坚定地主张。

Last year, Polish President Andrzej Duda suggested that Russia, as a successor state to the USSR, also owes reparations to Warsaw.
The Soviet Army completed the liberation of Poland from the Nazis together with local troops in 1945.
Duda’s idea was condemned by Moscow, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov calling it “unhealthy political extremism” and another sign of Warsaw’s “frenzied Russophobia.”
Peskov noted that Russia has grievances with Poland dating to the 16th century, likely referring to the ‘Time of Troubles’ (or Great Smuta), when Russia was briefly occupied by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

去年,波兰总统安德烈·杜达提出俄罗斯(作为苏联的继承国)也欠波兰赔偿。1945年,苏联部队与当地军队一起完成了解放波兰脱离纳粹统治的任务。杜达的这个想法遭到了莫斯科的谴责,克里姆林宫发言人德米特里·佩斯科夫称之为“不健康的政治极端主义”,并是波兰“疯狂的俄罗斯仇恨”的另一个迹象。佩斯科夫指出,俄罗斯对波兰的不满可以追溯到16世纪,可能是指“动荡时期”(又称大骚乱),当时俄罗斯曾被波兰立陶宛联邦短暂占领。