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  • EU publication suggests Poland was responsible for Auschwitz

    Poles are continuously fighting for historic truth on the international arena, especially in regard to the Second World War, with the latest falsehood coming from the European Parliament about Poland’s role regarding the German-run Auschwitz concentration camp. 

    Former Foreign Minister and current Law and Justice MEP Witold Waszczykowski has pointed to what he says is a slanderous article published by the European Parliament. In it, it is suggested that Poland was responsible for the murder of Jews in Auschwitz. There was no mention that Poland was occupied by Germany at the time, nor did the article state that Germany was responsible for the genocide.

    “A scandalous article concerning anti-Semitism appeared in the European Parliament publication. In it, there was an entry that in Christian and conservative Poland, Auschwitz murdered thousands of Jews! Nothing about Poland’s occupation and Germany’s fault,” he wrote on Twitter.

    According to the article, “Poland is fourth in the report concerning places in which Jews are afraid of anti-Semitism.” Yet, the most troubling section of text is the one that follows:

    “Poland is strongly Christian and very conservative. It is also where Auschwitz murdered [as in original text!] many thousands of Jews along with Roma and Sinti people, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses and anyone outside of the mainstream”.

    There is no mention of 75,000 Polish victims of Auschwitz murdered by Nazi Germans, which means an uninformed reader who does not know history may be led to believe that Poles were responsible for the death of thousands of Jews based on how the article is written.

    There is no information in the article about Germans being the ones who established the concentration camp in Auschwitz and that millions died at their hands.

    There is also no mention in the article that Poland was under German occupation during the Second World War.

    The article is sure to anger many Poles, who often feel that history is being falsified to slander Poland. There are also concerns that such messaging is overwhelming historical truth, especially when prestigious organizations like the European Parliament are supporting publications about the Holocaust that lack context and historical accuracy. 

  • ‘German death camps’ truck has been on American roads for two years

    A truck with the sign “German Death Camps” has been travelling across the United States for the last two years in an attempt to educate Americans about the real perpetrators of the Holocaust.

    For two years, the truck has traveled across 20 states and covered hundreds of thousands of kilometers, according to the organizers of the campaign. The vehicle has been in, among other places, New York, Chicago and Miami.

    The truck has the slogans “war reparations for Poland”, “German death camps” and “German not Nazi” written on it in English. There is also an appeal to not “confuse the murderer with the victim.”

    Nazi Germany built their factories of death in different parts of Europe, but Poland is the country in which the places of memory of those horrific events are cared for.

    If this trend is maintained, then soon it will turn out that the memory of totalitarian terror in Europe will only be associated with Poland. Our Western neighbors, who of course came up with the concept of dialectics in philosophy, understand well that memory is the result of collective work and can undergo transformation through the next generations.

    This is why instead of remembering German totalitarian crime, these countries prefer to look to the First World War as a common European catastrophe, debate European colonialism and maybe celebrate the end of the Second World War as a moment of their own “liberation”.

    The German Chancellor explained, that Auschwitz is not only a symbol of the Holocaust, but also the symbol of “the murdering and genocide of the Sinti Roma, the murder of political prisoners, Polish intelligentsia, members of the resistance, prisoners from the former USSR and other states, gay people, disabled people and many, many others from across Europe.”

    Merkel underlined that the suffering in Auschwitz, the death in gas chambers and the forced labor was “incomprehensible to the human mind.”

    She added that the camp’s official full name in German was Auschwitz-Birkenau, the German National-Socialist Work and Death Camp. 

    “Oświęcim is located in Poland, but in October 1939 Auschwitz was annexed as part of the German Reich. It then was a German death camp administered by Germans. It’s important to me to underline that, important, to clearly point out the perpetrators. We owe that to the victims and to ourselves,” Merkel declared.