Italian court says Germany should compensate for WWII massacre
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
03.11.2017 12:28
An Italian court has ruled that Germany should pay EUR 6.6 million compensation to the families of 128 people killed in a massacre during World War II.
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The court in Sulmona, central Italy, decided Germany should pay EUR 1.6 million to the nearby town of Roccaraso, where the 128 people were executed in November 1943, and EUR 5 million to the victims' descendants.
The Italian court's decision follows suggestions in Warsaw that Poland should seek war reparations from Germany.
In a resolution adopted in 1953, Poland's communist government of the time recognised that Germany had fulfilled its obligations with regard to Poland and decided against seeking compensation payments.
But Poland's ruling conservatives have said that decisions made by the country's communist-era authorities are not necessarily still valid because they were made under pressure from the Soviet Union.
Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło in September said Poland deserves reparations from Germany for the huge losses it sustained in World War II, but indicated her government had not yet made a final decision on pressing claims.
Greece has also called for reparations from Germany. (vb/pk)
Source: PAP, Polish Radio