Poland summons U.S. ambassador over FBI head's Holocaust remarks

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Sun Apr 19, 2015 8:48am EDT

Poland summons U.S. ambassador over FBI head's Holocaust remarks

WARSAW

(Reuters) - Poland has summoned 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 earlier this 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 said in the article: "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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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/19/us-poland-us-holocaust-idUSKBN0NA0G420150419

[sarisataka]

1. The Poles should get

A very humble apology.

To lump the Poles in with Germany- who started the war by invading Poland, and Hungary- a willing and active German ally, is beyond insulting and victim-blaming of the worst sort.

The statement shows Mr. Comey is extremely ignorant of WW 2 history. He is apparently unaware of SS-Wikingdivision and the thousands of volunteers from western European countries and the Soviet Union who joined the SS in combat and the Holocaust. Poland stands out as the only occupied country (and several neutral countries) that did not have anyone join the SS.

The United States had more volunteers join the SS than Poland.

"Unacceptable" is a very polite reply from PM Kopacz.

[Mosby]

2. he apologized.

But let's not kid ourselves about what happened in Poland. Where did all the Jews homes and business and assets go?

http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/129082/in-the-polish-aftermath