U.S. Senators Want Poland to Pay Victims of Nazi Property Thefts
- Restitution a touchy issue as Trump prepares to visit Poland
- More than 80 senators sent letter to Pompeo on compensation
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki
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U.S. senators urged President Donald Trump’s administration to pressure Poland, a NATO ally, to resolve demands to compensate Holocaust victims for property confiscated by the Nazis during World War II.
More than 80 senators from both parties signed a letter calling on Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to “act boldly and with urgency to help Poland resolve this issue comprehensively.” The move comes four weeks before Trump is due to visit Poland to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II, which began with shots fired by a German ship near the Baltic port of Gdansk.