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24.09.04, 17:59
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story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&ncid=2027&e=6&u=/chitribts/20040922/ts_chicagotrib/germanrestitutionbidstirsoutrageinpoland
German restitution bid stirs outrage in Poland
As next year's 60th anniversary of World War II's conclusion gets closer, it has become the fashion in Germany to describe the Allied victory over Hitler's Third Reich as the beginning of Germany's "liberation" from fascism.
Some have taken the logic a step further, arguing that Germans, too, were victims of a war that claimed 4.2million German lives and left their country in ruins.
But to many it was a step too far when one German group announced plans to go to court to seek restitution for German property losses in Poland, the first country invaded by Hitler.
That struck some as a bit like the boy who murders his parents and then begs the court for mercy because he's an orphan. Poles were outraged, and the Polish parliament retaliated by voting unanimously to demand war reparations from Germany.