U-turn for Erika Steinbach as she backtracks on compensation claims

Erika Steinbach, head of the Forced Migrants Union in Germany, has changed her stance completely, stating officially on Saturday she was against any compensation claims Germans might have from Poland as well as from other countries. After Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's speech during the 1944 Uprising anniversary celebrations in Warsaw Steinbach suggested that the German government should take care of financial claims of the displaced. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A8) D.W.