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Sep 14, 2022, 9 tweets

64% of #Polish people say #Germany should pay reparations for the damage it caused to #Poland during #WWII according to a new Social Changes opinion poll (source: @wPolityce_pl, Sept 4)

#WarLossesReport #RaportStratWojennych #ReparacjedlaPolski #ReparationsForPoland #Statistics

The death toll in #WWII was enormous with millions of lives lost.
There was 1๏ธโƒฃ country that suffered disproportionately, it was #Poland ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ

Chart: WW2 casualties as % of each country's population

#unREDEEMed #ReparationsNow #ReparationsForPoland #ReparacjedlaPolski #Infographic

To put this into perspective, let's consider a family 2+2 with 1 living grandparent. In the case of ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ this means that by the end of #WWII ๐จ๐ง๐ž family member would have been killed by either a ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช or a ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บโ€ผ๏ธ

#unREDEEMed #ReparationsNow #ReparationsForPoland #ReparacjedlaPolski

"Send men, women and children of Polish origin to their deaths."
โ€” Hitler's speech/order from August 1939

#PolishHistory #ww2 #twitteristorians #Poland #History #Genocide #ReparationsForPoland #ReparacjeDlaPolski #Reparations

"That's one giant leap for mankind"

A truly ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐๐š๐ฒ and the next step to reaching ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ž! ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ

#unREDEEMed #WarLossesReport #RaportStratWojennych #ReparationsNow #Poland #ReparacjedlaPolski @PolandMFA #ReparationsForPoland #history

During #WWII ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑsuffered the greatest personal&material losses out of all ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ. >5mln ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ lost their lives. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ lost huge opportunities for development. Experts est. losses at $1.3t. These losses have never been compensated

#ReparationsForPoland @arekmularczyk

"๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ's #WWII losses are estimated to be $1.5 mln (as of Dec 2021) and are subject to revaluation. It is thus in ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช's best interest to settle the this debt ASAP so to avoid paying interest & late fees"
โ€” @arekmularczyk, head of the Reparations Research Group

#ReparationsForPoland

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