Poland in denile of its role in the holocaust

[Jesus Malverde]

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will summon the United States' ambassador in Warsaw over an article written by a top U.S. intelligence official on Poland's alleged responsibility for the Holocaust during World War Two, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday.

The article by FBI director James Comey, published in the Washington Post last week, prompted an outcry in Poland and drew condemnation in the media and from politicians.

A foreign ministry spokesman said on his Twitter account that the U.S. ambassador would be summoned to the ministry over the article, and that Poland would demand an apology.

Comey's article in the Washington Post earlier this week said: "In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn’t do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do."

Poland says the passage wrongly implied it was complicit in the Nazi genocide of European Jews.

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1. Before WW II Poland was one of the most antisemitic

countries in Europe. Once the Germans invaded they had little difficulty in finding enthusiastic cooperators in the persecution and extermination of Polish (and later those from many other countrires) Jewry. While they can proudly point to the relatively small number of Poles who chose to help rather than persecute their Jewish neighbors, that doesn't negate the fact that Poland was a welcoming climate for the Nazi's brand of rabid persecution of Polish Jews.