Germany’s disgrace. 50 thousand Poles are still waiting for money for Nazism

“Poles injured by the Third Reich are to receive financial support from Germany, but the German government is delaying the decision while more and more elderly victims are dying,” wrote the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

About 50,000 Poles are still waiting for a “humanitarian gesture”, while in Germany the discussion is still ongoing. Its topics include legal objections, fear of demands from other countries and Germany’s difficult budget situation. “The longer the Germans deceive the Polish victims of Nazism, the greater the disgrace becomes,” wrote Daniel Broessler in a comment published on the website of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (ZS) newspaper.

10 thousand PLN per year per victim. Germany offered much less

If you don’t know what it’s about, it’s about money – the old saying is also true in this extremely unpleasant case. According to the German newspaper, unlike the PiS government, Donald Tusk’s government is reconciled with the refusal to pay reparations, but does not agree to the amount that may be received as alms in Poland. For this reason, in 2024, Prime Minister Tusk rejected the offer of EUR 200 million made by then Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

The original demands expressed by the PiS government were around EUR 1.3 trillion.

According to “SZ”, the Polish side signaled to the authorities in Berlin that it could accept an amount of PLN 10,000. zloty. annually for each injured party. The German budget would have to allocate approximately EUR 300 million for benefits.

90-year-olds are waiting for payments from Germany. They probably won’t live to see them

Even though in the case of annual payments, the budget of Germany – after all, the fourth economy in the world – would need “only” EUR 100 million, and in the following years the amount would systematically decrease due to the deaths of victims of Nazism, there is still no consensus on this matter.

As a result of Germany’s criminal and consistent activities, approximately 6 million Polish citizens died during World War II – this is not common knowledge in Germany. The victims of German Nazism in Poland included all age groups – from infants to the elderly. People who survived persecution and terror are now over 90 years old.

The German budget for 2026 is facing huge problems due to a record state financial deficit, a decline in tax revenues caused by the ongoing economic crisis and a strict constitutional framework limiting the incurrence of new debt. Shrinking industrial production and high energy prices due to the conflict in the Middle East have led to a wave of company bankruptcies – estimated to be the highest in over 20 years.

The German Ministry of Finance refused to allow the daily “Süddeutsche Zeitung” to publicly comment on the problem. The daily’s columnist emphatically wrote “time is running out” and added that Chancellor Merz promised during consultations in December 2025 that the memory and settlement of the Nazi dictatorship “will never be a closed matter for us.”