A parliamentary commission in Poland reported yesterday that the country lost more than five million citizens and over $54 billion worth of assets under its Nazi German occupation during World War II, the Times of Israel website reports today (September 1, 2018).
The commission announced the numbers as part of the Polish government's intent to seek monetary damages from Germany.
The leader of the ruling Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, argues that as the first country the Nazis attacked in 1939, Poland was also the first to put up resistance and suffered the greatest losses.
Poland also spent decades under Soviet Russian domination after World War II and was not able to seek damages independently.
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