The purpose of the German aggression against Poland was to deprive our country of its identity

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki pointed out that the German invasion of Poland was a brutal interruption of twenty years of development of our homeland after more than 120 years of captivity. In his last order, issued just before 1 September, Hitler made a significant appeal to his soldiers: 'Have no mercy, be brutal, our superiority gives us all the rights'.

- World War II was a real Armageddon for Poland. The Germans murdered millions of citizens. They stole art collections, leveled cities to the ground, burned Polish villages. Hundreds of monuments, thousands of houses and tenement houses, bridges and hundreds of kilometres of urban infrastructure. Everything was destroyed -  listed the Prime Minister.

Wartime material losses in Warsaw alone amount to more than USD 45 billion. This is not only the losses caused by warfare. It is a methodical operation to destroy the city on the orders of Heinrich Himmler - an official of the German state, whose legal successor is the Federal Republic of Germany.

- Warsaw was turned into a sea of rubble. The blowing up of the Saski Palace by the Germans was another act of destroying Polishness: our culture, heritage and symbols. All those actions of the occupying forces on Polish soil were to be a terrible break of the continuity of our identity -  noted the head of the Polish Government. 

The time has come to rebuild the Saski Palace - the heart of Poland

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stressed that today, by rebuilding the Saski Palace and other buildings, we can show that Polishness has survived. For more than seven decades, plans to rebuild the Palace have been reconsidered many times, which is the best proof of its importance for our national community.

The head of the Polish government pointed out that it was time to close that period. It is time to rebuild the Saski Palace, so that this beautiful building, together with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, once again becomes a symbol of untamed Poland, independent Poland, Poland that is home to all those who want to live and work within its borders.

The Józef Piłsudski Square, together with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, is a special place. The place symbolising our national pride, our unity and solidarity. Most of the state ceremonies take place here and also here, in June 1979, the unforgettable words of St John Paul II about "the renewal of this earth" were uttered, here, in 1981, Warsaw and Poland bid farewell to the Primate of the Millennium.

Germany should accept war reparations to Poland

- Today - on the anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising - I want to appeal once again to the German authorities to find the courage to take up the subject of reparations, the subject of compensation - the only right path leading to the redress of past wrongs. The wrongs done to the whole Poland, in particular, to its capital - said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and added: - That is why I would like the Mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, to sign the letter to Chancellor Scholz on that matter.

Describing the barbarity of the Germans, calculating the resulting losses, holding the perpetrators to account and demanding reparation - this is the duty of every leader elected by Poles.

Appeal to the Mayor of Warsaw to jointly sign a letter to the German Chancellor

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stressed that "politics can divide us, we have completely different opinions on many issues, but I firmly believe that we can agree on that issue".

Warsaw requires reparations, Warsaw requires compensation, Warsaw requires reconstruction, and we must speak with one voice on that matter as that is what Poland's raison d'état requires.

- I encourage the Mayor of Warsaw to rise above current political divisions and to jointly articulate to the German side the demand for reparations for the destruction of Warsaw, for the devastation of thousands of Polish towns and villages, for the apocalyptic hecatomb prepared for the Polish nation - appealed the head of the Polish government.