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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