Through most of my youth, I heard stories about Germans during the war, not about Nazis, about Germans. Yes, the ordinary Germans who showed their murderous hate for under-people, or less than human, Poles. A lot of the stories, the most horrific ones are still not said. We are not allowed because Germans now are such wonderful peace-loving people who helped create the EU and even invited Poles to it. So, we are not allowed to tell what we know. We should bow our heads and stay quiet (or else) when some "historian" finds evidence that few Poles also took part in the Holocaust. And we should definitely stay quiet when in the name of rewriting history they (for example the Wall Street Journal) tell us that millions of Jews and an untold number of Poles died in Polish Death Camps. Really.
"Lack of precision and sensitivity in describing historical facts leads to the historical distortion. Even if it applies to a film review." Not “Polish”, but “German” death camps. Period" - wrote the Polish diplomat, Adrian Kubicki, on social media.
Kubicki also pointed out that the text paradoxically deals with the film describing Hitler and warning against trivializing the story contains another "media slip-up", which is calling the extermination camps "Polish", which contradicts the content of the article. (Commentary on Dorzeczy.pl)
One other thing that needs to be pointed out, in the article the word "Germany" or "German" is never mentioned. Only "Nazis." Do you see my point?
Lately, we see plenty of articles in the American and European media about nationalism rising in Poland, and its leaders are called "thugs" (Joe Biden, 2020). I guess that is the prize Poles have to pay for even talking to Trump, nevertheless treating him like the Unites States President when he visited Poland. And that's on the top of being Poles.
- KT, PoloniaNews
