Poland has left the new German ambassador to Warsaw in limbo as he is pilloried in the country’s nationalist press for his father’s past as an adjutant to Hitler.
Relations between the neighbouring countries suffered under a barrage of anti-German rhetoric during the recent Polish presidential election campaign, as well as repeated demands for Second World War reparations.
At the start of the summer Germany nominated Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven, a former Nato intelligence chief, well-regarded ambassador to Prague and capable jazz guitarist, to take over the post in Warsaw.
Ordinarily his approval by the host government, known in diplomatic circles as an agrément, would be a formality, but Poland has stalled for more than three months.
Although the pandemic, the election and the
