Poland prime minister says returning property to Jews is akin to victory for Hitler, sparks backlash

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'It would be Hitler’s posthumous victory,' the Polish Prime Minister said.

Poland will not pay restitution to Jews who had their property taken during World War II because to do so would be akin to handing Adolf Hitler a victory, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said over the weekend.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki walks past flags of the European Union as he attends the second day of an EU summit on March 22, 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Still, last year Poland made it illegal for people to say that Poles participated in the Holocaust. The bill, known as the Nazi Complicity Bill, was widely condemned by officials in Israel.

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