US ambassador to US protests 'unfair' German TV series
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
12.04.2013 07:14
The Polish ambassador in the United States has protested against a German WW II TV series being distributed in America which “stereotypes” Poles as anti-Semites.
Scene from Our Mothers, our fathers: photo - Krzysztof Lentylos/YouTube
“This film presents a selective image, based on stereotypes, and above all is painfully unfair to soldiers who heroically fought the German occupiers, often paying the highest price,” Ambassador Ryszard Schnepf writes in a letter to Music Box Films, which is to distribute the controversial Our mothers, our fathers TV series, made by the German state television network ZDF, in the US.
Poland's anger has been raised by scenes in the series which depict members of Poland's WW II 'Home Army' resistance movement against occupying Nazi Germans as being anti-Semites, with one scene showing a Pole saying that they “drown Jews like rats”.
Ambassador Schnepf writes in his protest letter that the TV series “does not serve the truth” about Poles' attitudes to Jews during the German occupation, saying that the film neglects to show the thousands of Poles who risked their lives sheltering Jews from the Nazis.
The TV series prompted one right-wing Polish weekly, Uwazam Rze, to depict on its front cover Chancellor Angela Merkel dressed as a concentration camp inmate, with the headline: Falsification of History: How The Germans Made Themselves The Victims of World War II. (pg)
source: IAR