Poland plans to punish use of the phrase 'Polish death camps'

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Poland plans to punish use of the phrase 'Polish death camps'

Reuters
Saturday 13 February 2016 18.16 GMT

Poland is drawing up new regulations to punish use of the phrase “Polish death camps” in reference to wartime Nazi concentration camps on Polish soil, the justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, has said.

Poland has long sought to eliminate the misleading phrase from historical and newspaper accounts since it suggests the country, which was occupied by Nazi Germany during the second world war, was responsible for concentration camps on its territory.

The Nazis operated many of their most infamous death camps, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibór and Treblinka complexes, in occupied Poland rather than in Germany.

“This will be a project that meets the expectations of Poles, who are blasphemed in the world, in Europe, even in Germany, that they are the Holocaust perpetrators, that in Poland there were Polish concentration camps, Polish gas chambers,” Ziobro told Polish radio station RMF.

[font size=1]-snip-[/font]

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/13/poland-plans-ban-phrase-polish-death-camps

[COLGATE4]

1. There are some, among them the few Polish jews who still live

there that would mention Poland's record as highly anti-semitic before and during WWII. It wasn't the Poles fault that the majority of the death camps were in Poland. To paraphrase Willy Sutton, "that's where the Jews were". But, with some notable exceptions Jews in occupied Poland were regularly beaten and worse by Polish 'volunteers' who worked side by side with the SS and the Einstzgruppen.

[MisterP]

2. Wiki on the controversy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Polish_death_camp%22_controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_of_Europe