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Originally Posted by Lancer44
From the legal point of view German government is perfectly right...
They don't need to pay compensation. Anyone want to argue?
You welcome! I'm waiting...
Anyway, how long one country can compensate?
Something like that, may sound strange from a Pole like me, but this is what
I really think!
Looking at history, Europe was almost always at war. Maybe French should look at getting compensation from Russia because when Napoleon was retreating from Moscow in 1912, some bad "muzhiks" shot several thousands French POW's?
Why not?
Poles can demand compensation from Spain because when Napoleon's army fought in Spain, some poor fellows from Polish Kozietulski's cavalry, had their throats cut for slaughtering Spanish peasants.
What a crime! What a miserable act of Spanish cruelty...
Let's go to court! Money are waiting!
I will go even further... Some influential circles in Poland are pursuing compensation claims from Russia, on behalf of descendants of Polish officers killed by NKVD in Katyn, Miednoye, Charkov and other places.
I think it is a complete madness. Same with demanding compensations from descendants of German victims.
There was a war... 61 years ago. People which had something to say about it are dead. Those alive were kids or youngsters when all atrocities happened.
Now in any country money are not growing on trees; they are part of the taxes paid by working people. These working people may accept the burden of increasingly growing army of healthy pensioners which want to go to their annual trips to Canary Island, being on welfare and having their accounts in some "tax heavens" like Jersey.
I would rather see Russian money spent on welfare in Russia than given to any greedy Polish family claiming for "great, great uncle" which they not only never seen but never even thouth of him, before some slaezy lawyer knocked to the door and spit the news in their ears.
Same with German compensations for slave workers, Gypsys, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals, officers which had a bad luck and caught veneral diseases, some poor fellows which were shot after Stauffenberg put his briefcase under the table...
Why anyone born after 1945 have take any responsibility for what happened before he was born or even earlier?
Maybe we should stop this idiocy?
Klaus, what you think about it as representative of young European generation?
Cheers,
Lancer44
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I really could not have put it better. Living in the country with most of the world's lawyers, it's time they found better things to do.
While I agree in principle that nations should pay their debts, there needs to be a reasonable limit placed on "reparations". In my state, "damage" claims need to be made within three years of becoming aware of the injury, or three years after reaching the age of majority in the case of a minor. I don't mean to compare minor property disputes to allegations of war crimes, but the idea behind it is the same: that is that there ought to be a statute of limitations after which one cannot ask for compensation.
At some point the war should be over. When I was young my parents, as a matter of principle, would not buy Japanese or German cars. Times change. My first car was a Datsun (now Nissan). I have since owned Toyota, Honda, Audi, Mercedes. And I also have owned Jeep, Chrysler, and Dodge (all made by Daimler-Chrysler, a German company). My current vehicle is a Dodge truck (with license plate 'WW2 BUFF'
). Times really need to change.