Eight decades after the first Nazi bombs fell on Poland, echoes of the blasts can be heard in the bickering between Warsaw and Berlin over the possibility of billions of euros in war reparations.
The president of Poland repeated on Sunday his country's demand for Germany to pay reparations over World War II, days before ministers from Berlin and Warsaw will sit down for bilateral talks.
Polish victims of World War II should be able to claim €440 billion from Germany in World War II damages, the head of a parliamentary commission said Thursday.
The German government said Friday it had asked a US court to throw out a lawsuit brought by indigenous groups from Namibia seeking reparations for the genocide of their peoples under German colonial rule.
Warsaw on Wednesday played down a row with Germany over its demand for World War II reparations, with Poland's foreign minister saying the issue should not hinder good relations between neighbours.
The question of whether Germany owes Poland war reparations - an issue recently revived by Warsaw - is a complex entanglement of historical, ethical, diplomatic and economic factors. Here are
the key elements.
Poland's governing conservatives have set up a parliamentary committee tasked with looking into the extent of World War II reparations they claim is owed by Germany, the new body's head said Friday.
Germany on Friday dismissed Poland's threat to demand new talks for World War II reparations from Berlin, saying the issue was already settled in 1953.
Poland and Germany should hold "serious talks" about World War II reparations, the Polish foreign minister said Monday, after his colleague said the figure could be as high as one trillion dollars.
Indigenous Namibians lashed out Friday at Germany for refusing to pay reparations for the genocide of their people a century ago, calling it a "phenomenal" insult to victims' descendants.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday urged speedy efforts for debt-hit Greece to reach a deal with its international creditors.
The Greek government has started playing clips of the Nazi occupation of Greece during the Second World War on Athens' underground train lines to remind people of German atrocities against their country.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the European Union of trying to stop Greece fighting for its own national interest on Wednesday after heavy criticism of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' visit to Moscow.
Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, dismissed Greek calls for Germany to pay reparations of €278.8 billion for crimes committed during the Second World War on Tuesday.
Update: After German tabloid Bild reported that Germany's least-favourite Greek minister Yanis Varoufakis was considering resigning, the minister rejected the story on Twitter.
The Minister for European Affairs said Thursday Berlin may increase its contribution to a German-Greek fund, potentially paving the way for a compromise to Athens demanding World War II reparations.
Update:Greece protested Thursday to Germany over comments by German Finance Minister Wolfgang schäuble deemed "condescending" towards his Greek counterpart Yanis Varoufakis, an official said.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that Germany owes his country war compensation worth hundreds of billions ahead of Wednesday's negotiations in Brussels on his country's debts.
President Joachim Gauck begged forgiveness for Nazi war crimes at the end of his visit to Greece on Friday, in one of the clearest appeals to victims' families ever uttered by a German head of state.
The state of Saxony has paid €4.2 million to a former noble house for porcelain forcibly nationalised by the fledgling communist government after World War II, with even bigger payouts possibly still to come.
More than 90 years after Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles to end the First World War, the country continues to pay off reparations, daily <i>Bild</i> reported on Wednesday.
Hundreds of French orphans whose fathers died after being conscripted by Nazi Germany during World War II have lodged a case against the German government at the European Court of Human Rights.
