Asymetria odszkodowań dla obywateli Polski za szkody poniesione w II wojnie światowej w stosunku do odszkodowań wypłaconych obywatelom innych państw

• Authors: Bainczyk Magdalena

Title variants

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Asymmetry of compensations for Polish citizens for the losses incurred during the Second World War in relation to compensations paid to citizens of other countries

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

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After the Second World War, Germany was obliged to pay reparations to the countries participating in the winning coalition. Among other things, due to the fact that the states on both sides of the Iron Curtain ceased to collect them, the question of financial compensation for the losses incurred by natural persons in connection with international crimes committed by Third Reich officers was not resolved.The main aim of this paper is a dogmatic, historical and comparative analysis of the legal foundations for payment of compensations to citizens of Germany, Western European countries, Israel, the United States and Central European countries and also an assessment of these legal solutions, especially from the Polish perspective. The legal solutions adopted led to a blatant dual asymmetry in terms of compensation for natural persons: 1. between German citizens and the citizens of occupied countries, 2. between citizens of Western European countries, the United States of America and Israel on the one hand and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe on the other. This asymmetry contradicts the principles of human dignity, equality before the law and the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of national origin, which were developed after the Second World War in a framework of the international human rights protection systems.

Keywords

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compensation; reparations; II World War; Germany; Poland

• Publisher: Instytut Zachodni. Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego w Poznaniu
• Journal: Przegląd Zachodni
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 1(370)
• Pages: 83-104

Contributors

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Bainczyk Magdalena

• Instytut Zachodni, Poznań