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Officials in the Polish Parliament are currently investigating the legal possibility of getting payments from Germany more than 72 years after the end of the war.

The move comes after Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the nationalist conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS), last week announced Poland was preparing for an “historic counteroffensive”.

He said: “We are talking about enormous sums and the fact that Germany has refused to take responsibility for the Second World War for many years.”

Almost six million Poles died during the war after the Nazis attacked Poland in 1939.