50 years have passed since addressing „The Pastoral Letter of Polish Bishops to their German Brothers” which invited them for celebrations of the Millennium of Poland’s Christianisation. The document summarised centuries-old Polish-German relations and appealed for establishing an ongoing dialogue in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, most explicitly expressed in the words: “In this most Christian and at the same time very human spirit we stretch out our hands towards you sitting here on the benches of the ending Council and we grant forgiveness and ask for forgiveness.”

Although at the time the reaction of the German bishops and, in particular, the lack of support for the Oder and the Neisse border disappointed not only the authors of the letter, 50 years after that event the majority of Poles support that initiative of the Polish bishops. However, it is worth noticing that interviewees are more often convinced of its moral than political appropriateness.

More on that issue can be found in the coming soon CBOS report in Polish.