Poland's ruling-party chairman opposed the new German ambassador because his father served as a military officer in Hitler's bunker during the last months of the second world war
, the outgoing Polish foreign minister, called the delay “strange” in an interview on August 31st with, a Polish daily. For three months Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven was waiting in his apartment in Berlin for his as German envoy to Warsaw, usually a swift formality.
It is not the first time Mr Kaczynski has sought a confrontation with Poland’s neighbour and biggest trading partner. He has accused Germany of scheming to recover land it lost to Poland after the war and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, of being a pawn of the Stasi, the former East German secret police.
The German government did not withdraw the appointment of Mr Freytag von Loringhoven, one of the country’s most experienced diplomats, who had previously served as a well-liked ambassador to the Czech Republic. The standoff started to attract international attention. On the evening before the 81st anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland on September 1st the Polish government at last held out an olive branch.
Mr Freytag von Loringhoven will not have an easy start in Warsaw. He will deal with Zbigniew Rau, the new foreign minister, an ardent supporter ofwho has virtually no experience in foreign policy. They will need to work through complex disputes such as Nord Stream 2, a gas pipeline from western Russia to north-eastern Germany backed by the Germans but bitterly opposed by the Poles.
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