“Should you see German troopers, please don’t panic. They’re right here to assist,” a deadpan Tusk mentioned at a disaster assembly in Wrocław, a metropolis in western Poland dealing with rising floodwaters, in accordance with Polish media.
He added that American troops have been already offering assist to flood-affected communities in southern Poland and that Turkey had prolonged the same provide of help.
Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939 along with the Soviet Union, annexing and dividing the nation between them, triggering World Struggle Two.
That historical past has lengthy been a sticking level in German-Polish relations, with Warsaw demanding monetary reparations from Berlin for its wartime devastation, although relations between the neighbors are in any other case steady.
Tusk, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will meet in Wrocław Thursday with European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen to debate their response to the floods.