Poland Poland provokes Israeli anger with Holocaust speech law Senate backs bill proposing jail terms for those who attribute crimes of Nazi Germany to Poles The entrance to Auschwitz in Poland. An opposition MP, Itzik Shmuli, said the bill made Poland “the first nation to legislate Holocaust denial”. History would judge Poland twice, he said, “for its role [in the Holocaust] and its despicable attempt at denial”. “Anyone who spreads a false statement about ‘Polish camps’ harms the good name and interests of Poland,” Tusk said on Twitter. More than three million – around half of all the Jews killed in the Holocaust – were murdered in German-built and operated death camps in Poland, including Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibór.

Source: The Guardian February 01, 2018 08:57 UTC