Polish Foreign Minister Anna Fotyga on Saturday expressed her "greatest alarm" over the property claims lodged by some German post-war refugees with the European Court of Human Rights.

Fotyga expressed the alarm in a statement after a group of 23 German post-war refugees or their relatives filed their complaint of property losses to the European Court of Human Rights through a pressure group called the Preussische Treuhand, or Prussian Trust, asking for compensations from the Polish government.

Some 12 million ethnic Germans were expelled from Poland and the former Czechoslovakia, leaving their houses and properties there after WWII ended in 1945. After the war, international boundaries were redrawn and the frontiers of Poland, in particular, were moved west into the previously Germany's territory.

Fotyga said the reports, if true, would amount to an attempt to "reverse the moral responsibility for the results of World War Two (which) began with the Third Reich's aggression against Poland."

"I have received the reports with the greatest alarm," she said in a statement published by the Polish news agency PAP.

"The complaint against Poland may adversely affect Polish-German dialogue and, in the long run, could disrupt Polish-German relations," she said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel made it clear on Saturday that the German government doesn't support the property claims, but the government also has no right "preventing them (refugees) from doing so."

Source: Xinhua