Poland’s Civic Platform party struck at Zbigniew Ziobry this week with a social media post about Germany’s war reparations, attaching a picture of the lawmaker and calling him “zero.”
Platforma Obywatelska’s Provocative Post
The post, published on September 2nd, referenced controversial remarks from 2003 where then-deputy justice minister Leszek Miller told Ziobro: “Mister deputy, you’re a zero!” Miller made the comment during an interview about the Rywina affair.
President Karol Nawrocki’s Comments on Reparations
On August 31st, President Karol Nawrocki acknowledged during a speech marking the 86th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II that Poland cooperates with Germany primarily economically. Although he did not explicitly call for reparations, his comments attracted attention from German media.
