It's shabby of Germany to hide behind paragraphs

"You are not guilty, without punishment", is the freely translated phrase in Adam Mickiewicz's ballad "Lilije". It is as if Poland's national poet, born in 1798, foresaw today's statements by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. When Poland demanded that Germany pay reparations for World War II, Scholz responded in a way that followed the dictum of the great Polish poet. Because, according to Mickiewicz, without compensation in the sense of paying a fine, there could have been no guilt, perhaps even no crime.

So, with Mickiewicz in mind, the German chancellor sounded like he was about to absolve himself of guilt.

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