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German paper uses false term ‘Polish’ death camp: report

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Paweł Kononczuk 19.03.2018 13:18
German newspaper Mittelbayerische Zeitung has referred to the Nazi German Sobibór World War II death camp as a “Polish” camp, the wpolityce.pl website reported on Monday.

During the war the camp was located in Nazi German-occupied eastern Poland. The site is now on the Polish-Ukrainian border.

Last April Mittelbayerische Zeitung also referred to the Treblinka death camp as a “Polish” camp, wpolityce.pl reported.

Sobibór was one of three death camps -- alongside Treblinka and Bełżec -- that the Germans established in occupied Poland during World War II as part of their Operation Reinhardt, a secretive plan to exterminate the entire Jewish population in the so-called General Government area of Poland under Nazi control.

The Germans murdered an estimated 2 million Jews from Poland and other European countries as part of Operation Reinhardt from March 1942 to November 1943.

Poland recently passed a contested law which could impose a jail term on anyone who accuses the country of being complicit in Nazi German crimes. The move triggered anger in Israel and a warning from the United States.

In Poland, the new rules are seen as a way of fighting the use of the phrase “Polish death camps,” which many say implies the country's involvement in the Holocaust.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was to pay a visit to Warsaw on Monday to hold talks on the next EU budget, migration and military and energy issues.

The new Polish anti-defamation law could also be broached during talks between Merkel and Polish leaders, according to reports.

Public broadcaster Polish Radio has launched a new website, GermanDeathCamps.info, aimed at debunking misconceptions about Poland’s role in the Holocaust.

(pk/gs)

Source: wpolityce.pl

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