(ANSA) - TRIESTE - Poland is looking into demanding reparations from Germany for the massive losses inflicted on Poland during World War II, Ap reported. The Polish parliament's research office is preparing an analysis of whether to make the claim.

"We are talking here about huge sums, and also about the fact that Germany for many years refused to take responsibility for World War II", leader of the conservative ruling party Jaroslaw Kaczynski said in a radio interview. Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said Germans need to "pay back the terrible debt they owe to the Polish people". Germany has paid billions of euros over the years in compensation for Nazi crimes.

World War II, which began with the German invasion of Poland in 1939, killed nearly 6 million Polish citizens and wrought huge material loss on the country. The massive suffering inflicted on Poland has been a topic of public discussion recently as Poland marked the anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. The doomed revolt against the Nazi German occupying forces resulted in the killing of 200,000 Poles and the near total destruction of Warsaw.