Poland is another of those countries like the U.S. where nationalist racists are doing quite well in the government. Now the parliament, controlled by the nationalists, has a draft bill to penalize any mention of Polish complicity by either the Polish state or Poles in the killing of Jews during
World War II.
Almost half of the Jews killed in the Holocaust were Polish Jews. Many Poles did their best to aid their fellow Jewish citizens, but it is also true that anti-Semitism is a deep thread in Polish history, and many Poles were complicit.
The bill would punish anyone who admits that with a fine and up to three years in prison. Once again we see a nation trying desperately to re-write history. We’re pretty familiar with that.
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