Polish government asks Germany to ‘think creatively’ about war loss compensation

German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock shakes hands with her Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski after their joint press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

The foreign minister in Poland’s new pro-European Union government has said he would like Germany’s leaders to think in a “creative” way about compensating Poland for huge losses it suffered at Nazi Germany’s hands during the Second World War.

The request was greatly toned down from that of Poland’s previous right-wing government, which had demanded 1.3 trillion dollars (£1.03 trillion) in reparations for Nazi Germany’s invasion and occupation in 1939-45.