Poland demands apology from FBI head
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Poland yesterday said it has demanded a formal apology from the United States after the head of the FBI claimed Poland shares responsibility for the Holocaust with Germany.
US Ambassador Stephen Mull will 鈥渞eceive a note of protest and a summons for an apology鈥 over the comments by FBI director James Comey, foreign ministry spokesman Marcin Wojciechowski wrote on Twitter.
Comey鈥檚 opinion piece in the Washington Post last Thursday has sparked outrage among Polish politicians and media who see his comments as wrongly stating that Poland played a role in Nazi Germany鈥檚 genocide of 6 million European Jews in the Holocaust. 鈥淚n their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn鈥檛 do something evil,鈥 Comey wrote.
Poland鈥檚 President Bronislaw Komorowski told public television that Comey鈥檚 comments showed a 鈥渓ack of historical knowledge鈥 and was an 鈥渋nsult to thousands of Poles who helped Jews.鈥
Mull was quick to present an informal apology at memorial ceremonies in the Polish capital yesterday marking the 72nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
鈥淎ny suggestion that Poland, or any other countries other than Nazi Germany, bear responsibility for the Holocaust, is a mistake, harmful and insulting,鈥 Mull told reporters.
Six million Polish citizens were killed under Nazi Germany鈥檚 occupation of Poland during World War II. While half of the victims were Jewish, the other half were Christian.
Historical records show instances of Poles turning against their Jewish neighbors, either killing them or giving them up to the Nazis. Poles also risked their lives and families to save Jews.
In 2012, US President Barack Obama caused outrage in Warsaw when he labeled a World War II Nazi German facility in occupied Poland used to process Jews for extermination a 鈥淧olish death camp.鈥
He subsequently expressed 鈥渞egret鈥 at what he called his inadvertent use of the erroneous term 鈥淧olish death camp.鈥
Poland鈥檚 government keenly watches the global media for descriptions of former Nazi German death camps as 鈥淧olish.鈥
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