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Saturday, January 27, 2018

Polish lawmakers approves the bill punishable by up to three years in jail to use suggestive statements like 'Polish death camps' Friday Jan 26,2018

New laws in Poland make it a criminal offence to suggest the country had anything to do with crimes committed by Nazi Gemany

Polish lawmakers approved the bill on Friday Jan 26,2018, making it punishable by up to three years in jail to use suggestive statements like 'Polish death camps'.

Poles have fought for years against the use of phrases which suggest Poland was at least partly responsible for the camps where millions of people, mostly Jews, were killed by Nazi Germany.

Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has invoked Poles' suffering under Nazi occupation - including a death penalty for those who helped Jews - to respond to historical accounts that some Poles also committed crimes against the Jews during the war.

PiS is currently battling accusations from the opposition that the party's nationalist-minded, eurosceptic focus was helping to reinvigorate the far right. 

The bill will also make it illegal to deny the murder of about 100,000 Poles by units in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) during World War II.



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