German daily calls Nazi death camp 'Polish'
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
25.08.2017 14:52
The misleading phrase “Polish death camp” has been used in foreign media again, this time by German daily Frankfurter Neue Presse, which used the expression on its website in reference to the Sobibor extermination camp run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II, state broadcaster TVP has said.
The daily announced the 10 September opening of a Polish-Dutch exhibition on German Nazi crimes at the site of a different camp in central Germany, referring to the Sobibor camp in eastern Poland, by saying: “Nazis killed 250,000 people in this [Sobibor] Polish camp”, according to TVP.
The broadcaster said that the Polish Consulate General in Cologne and a Polish association in Germany would intervene over the use of the false term.
Polish diplomats regularly react to have retractions and apologies issued for the use of the misleading term.
German portal onetz.de recently called a former camp in Lublin a “Polish death camp”, but, like Sobibor, it was run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War Two.
The incorrect phrase was also used in some media reports on British Prince William and Kate's trip to Poland earlier this year, during which they visited the former Nazi German concentration camp of Stutthof near the northern Polish city of Gdańsk. (vb/str)
Source: TVP