Warsaw – Poland To Summon U.S. Ambassador Over FBI Head’s Holocaust Remarks

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    FBI Director James B. Comey speaks during a news conference on the release of the 9/11 Review Commission report in Washington March 25, 2015. REUTERS/Joshua RobertsWarsaw – Poland will summon the United States’ ambassador in Warsaw over an article written by a top U.S. intelligence official on Poland’s alleged responsibility for the Holocaust during World War Two, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday.

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    The article by FBI director James Comey, published in the Washington Post last week, prompted an outcry in Poland and drew condemnation in the media and from politicians.

    A foreign ministry spokesman said on his Twitter account that the U.S. ambassador would be summoned to the ministry over the article, and that Poland would demand an apology.

    Comey’s article in the Washington Post earlier this week said: “In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn’t do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do.”

    Poland says the passage wrongly implied it was complicit in the Nazi genocide of European Jews.

    Poland’s ambassador to the U.S. said in a statement the remarks were “unacceptable”, adding that he had sent a letter to Comey “protesting the falsification of history, especially … accusing Poles of perpetuating crimes which not only they did not commit, but which they themselves were victims of.”

    Poland is one of the United States’ closest European allies, and bilateral relations have been strengthened by the conflict in Ukraine and related tensions with Russia. Polish politicians have repeatedly called for an increased U.S. military presence in the region.


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    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    8 years ago

    Lots of Poles were killed by the Nazis and the Communists. Lots of Poles killed for the Nazis and the Communists. There is no need to hide this historic fact.

    5TResident
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    5TResident
    8 years ago

    Of course Poles were complicit. Poles have hated Jews for centuries, way before the Shoah. To deny that is to deny that water is wet.

    AlbertEinstein
    AlbertEinstein
    8 years ago

    Good for FBI Director Comey!

    Truth hurts, doesn’t it, Poland. The Pollaks were worse than the Nazis, YM”Sh. The betrayed numerous Jews they were “hiding”, and even killed Jews AFTER the war.

    8 years ago

    Interesting that they are denying all responsibility i remember Jedwabne when Poles killed up to 1500 Jews and the polish president. apologized for all crimes committed by poles. There were many poles who collaborated with the Germans along with those that helped Jews and the polish government. should not berate fbi director for the statement

    benvin
    benvin
    8 years ago

    The Poles were much worse. They helped the Nazis find and kill jews as much as possible. I know there were really good poles who went out of their way and risked themselves fir jews, but the majority were more than eager to help kill us.
    Even after the war, whem survivors came back to their towns, the poles chased them out by killing and threatning them. Yes killing them. And the authorities did not do anything to prevent it.

    And now they need an apology????

    thetruthis
    thetruthis
    8 years ago

    The Polish people were complicit in the horrific and brutal murder of so many Jews that it boggles the mind that there would be a denial of the facts. The fact that the Poland, as a country, was attacked by Germany does not change the reality that the Polish people were anti-Semitic murderers who will not be forgiven.

    sissel613
    sissel613
    8 years ago

    My 93 year old mother, biz 120 in good health, always says the Poles were just as bad before the war. It goes way way back. I guess when the truth slaps them in the face,they can’t face it. They have 1000 years of correcting to do going back to imperialist Russia with which they actively participated and the church which did more than its share in tortuous activities. I have never had the desire to visit European countries. That continent’s ground is saturated with Jewish blood. So if Poland believes she played no role in the Shoah, there are a few bridges I can sell them.

    Wise-Guy
    Wise-Guy
    8 years ago

    The vast majority of Poles were complicit, or at least supportive, of the Holocaust.

    And that makes the few Poles that saved Jews extra special and righteous.
    They risked their lives, and the lives of their families.

    Whenever we condemn the Polish people of the earlier generation, I feel it’s important to also mention the (too few) righteous among them.

    I hope that the opinion that today’s Poles are more “progressive” and honorable is not just wishful thinking….

    8 years ago

    This is clearly a bad experience for Poland and America. If we try to point fingers 70 years after the fact and from the FBI and not other more valued expressions of need for diplomacy, USA can lose and Poland can be reviled by their own hate. This can only start more hatred rather than solve problems. I would like to see more public discussion and more facts of who and why and where. Poland was largely a victim in WW2, though clearly there were country men who were complicit with nazi hate and antisemitism. This is an interesting story, but lets hope that our diplomatic ties are not scourged to make a small effort to affix limited blame.

    lazerx
    lazerx
    8 years ago

    Poland’s alleged responsibility?

    It is not ‘alleged’, Poland’s population in some ways was harsher to the Jews than the Nazis.