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| Poland plans to punish use of the phrase 'Polish death camps' Poland plans to punish use of the phrase 'Polish death camps' | |
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| 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 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. | 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. | 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. | “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. |
| “Enough with this lie. There has to be responsibility,” he said. | “Enough with this lie. There has to be responsibility,” he said. |
| The phrase “Polish death camps” was usually found only in foreign publications, almost never in Poland itself. | The phrase “Polish death camps” was usually found only in foreign publications, almost never in Poland itself. |
| Ziobro said he had presented the project to the prime minister, Beata Szydło, and she reacted positively. | Ziobro said he had presented the project to the prime minister, Beata Szydło, and she reacted positively. |