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Tamsin Paternoster

Did Tusk say that Poland will pay for Germany's World War II crimes?

A series of recent posts on Facebook and X have accused Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk of agreeing that "Poland will pay for the Germans", following high-level talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that touched on the long-standing issue of World War II reparations.

The phrase appeared in dozens of posts across platforms and became the dominant narrative in online discussions, according to a report by Res Futura, a Polish NGO specialising in information security.

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