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The move comes after Poland's ruling nationalists last month
estimated Germany owed the country 6.2 trillion zlotys ($1.26
trillion). Germany, Poland's biggest trade partner, has said all
financial claims linked to the war had been settled.
"(The note) expresses the position of the Polish minister of
foreign affairs that the parties should take immediate steps to
permanently and effectively... settle the issue of the
consequences of aggression and German occupation," Rau told a
news conference.
Foreign ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina told reporters that Rau
would raise the issue with his German counterpart Annalena
Baerbock during her visit to Warsaw on Tuesday.
Some six million Poles, including three million Polish Jews,
were killed during the war and Warsaw was razed to the ground
following a 1944 uprising in which about 200,000 civilians died.
In 1953, Poland's then-communist rulers relinquished all claims
to war reparations under pressure from the Soviet Union, which
wanted to free East Germany, also a Soviet satellite, from any
liabilities.
Poland's ruling nationalists Law and Justice (PiS) say that
agreement is invalid because Poland was unable to negotiate fair
compensation. It has revived calls for compensation since it
took power in 2015 and has made the promotion of Poland's
wartime victimhood a central plank of its appeal to nationalism.
The combative stance towards Germany, often used by PiS to
mobilise its constituency, has strained relations with Berlin.
The German foreign ministry did not immediately reply to an
emailed request for comment.
($1 = 4.9260 zlotys)
(Reporting by Alan Charlish, Marek Strzelecki, Pawel Florkiewicz,
and Riham Alkousaa in Berlin, writing by Joanna Plucinska;
Editing by Toby Chopra, editing by Ed Osmond)
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