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False terminology in the foreign media used in reference to Nazi German concentration camps in occupied Poland.
Report by the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

This document was compiled through the monitoring of the international media during the period coinciding with the commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. For years, journalists have occasionally used terms like Polish concentration camps or Polish death camps in publications devoted to World War II and the Holocaust. Regardless of their intentions (e.g. geographic reference to a camp in occupied Poland), the use of such terms could be interpreted by some readers as indicating that the German Nazi camps had been built by Poles and thus were run as Polish camps. For this reason, Poland, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and all its missions around the world will consistently campaign against the use of terms that falsify history and shift the responsibility for the Holocaust from the criminal Nazi German regime onto Poland which was occupied by that regime.

ARGENTINA

The dailies La Nacion and Clarin , late January 2005, articles commemorating the anniversary of Auschwitz contained the terms Polish concentration camp and Polish camp. Protest letters by the Polish ambassador to the papers.

31st January, article by Prof. J.D. Goldhagen headlined Auschwitz the name of darkness (more on this in the section on the US), with claims of complicity of Poles in the crime of the Holocaust. Protest by the Polish ambassador.

The use by the Argentine press of terms like Polish camps mobilized the local Polish and Jewish communities to issue protest letters which were published in the papers and disseminated through the Internet.

AUSTRALIA

The Australian Associated Press (AAP) and the website of TV Channel 7 News, story headlined Momentous day for Auschwitz survivors , 26th January 2005, contained the phrase Polish camp. Protest letter by the Polish ambassador, campaign by the Polish expat community (e.g. meeting of the editor of Tygodnik Polski with the federal minister for citizenship), references made to the ruling of the Australian Press Council of May 1999 in a similar case (Adjudication No. 1025) , issued in favor of the Federal Council of Polish Associations in Australia. Written apologies by the chief editor of the AAP, with precise internal instructions for the Agencys journalists.


ABC television, broadcast of documentary titled Claiming the Memories, January 2005, suggestions of involvement of Poles in the killing of Jews; broadcast followed by anti-Polish stories in the Australian Jewish News and on the Internet (Auschwitz described as the infamous Polish death camp) citing US press agencies. Protest campaign by Polish expats.

BELGIUM

RVI-Radio Vlaanderen International (Flanders), 16th March 2005, commentary on the visit of the Belgian premier to Jerusalem - the term Polish death camp was used. After an intervention by the Polish embassy in Brussels, the station apologized on 18th March, explaining that the term had been used for brevity as a geographic reference.

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[wiesniak2000]

Jacy KUR...A naziści? Niemcy, NIEMCY, PO 100X NIEMCY. Przestańcie uzywac tego wybielającego germanską dzicz słówka-"naziści". NIEMCY!!!!!!!

[Marrdero]

Wielu ludzi na tym korzysta... żydzi, niemcy, kraje anglosaskie. Przecież niedouczanie ludzi na taką skalę nie może być przypadkiem. Celowo pokazuje się Polskę przez pryzmat zakłamania.

[benz500r]

Brutal German system created those munsters. They should have been eliminated from the map of Europe. Ordinary Americans in this movie are morons. You cannot be surprised. They call every other nation stupid, but they are the leaders.

[PolishAmericanDC]

mamy caly film na picasaweb.google.com/cobalt200­1/20110101#5557346503088872738­

[Emirt6]

Tak jest wszędzie. Byłem w Irlandii, Angli - to samo. Znajomi bylu w Kanadzie, USA, Filipinach i Francji - to samo: "koń na czołg, Polacy "gorsi", Polacy pro niemieccy, Polacy wywołali wojnę" , a NAJGORSZE nauczyciele, ignoranci.

[earlcamembert2]

Can I keep going here? Just to say I suport this idea and the doc and interested in this history and all that I'm just saying they may be taking away from the legitamcy of their argument with these clips and it doesn't help. I find it only adds feul for people arguments agaisnt! And that's a boo boo. Any thoughts? I can kind read Polish too.

[earlcamembert2]

When the first boy replies There are camps in Poland? Oh I don't know, I guess the Polish people cause Polish concentration camps. I don't even care.To me this looks and sounds like a dramatization...The two Asian girls's 'I don't knows' I'm sure are real but I'm 100% convinced of that particular context.The "Well that would be Hitler, right?" Looks dramatized. And "What a Nazi is? How would you explain that.." seems like a good answer to me as it's a one word definition. I've run out of room.

[paulsviplist]

Will someone please tell me how many Polish people died in the camps?

Please?

[1048luca]

Zapomniano przy wypowiedzi "(...) przecież nasz kraj rozdrapali Niemcy i Sowieci " dodać "Sowieci" - MASOWO i ENTUZJASTYCZNIE wspomagani przez Żydowską mniejszość etniczną.

To że Niemcy wspomagali Wehrmacht, zostało opisane. To że Żydzi wspomagali sowietów zostało CELOWO zapomniane, a fakt że także wielu Żydów zginęło z rąk sowietów NIE ZMIENIA podstawy całej sprawy: SOWIECI MASOWO I ENTUZJASTYCZNIE WSPOMAGANI PRZEZ ŻYDOWSKĄ MNIEJSZOŚĆ NARODOWĄ - to są FAKTY.

Gratulacje dla tego "profesora"...

[wiesniak2000]

@0plus2equals1 Ilu ? Ilu tych nienazistów było? 2% -5%! Widzę że jestes jednym z tych nowomyslnych To Polacy wywołali wojne swym nieuzasadnionym oporem wobec słusznych niemieckich żądań wywołali wojne po to aby mordować Żydów i grabic ich majatki! idź człowieku i napij się wody duuuuużo wody!

[0plus2equals1]

Naziści, nie Niemcy.  Nie wszyscy Niemcy to byli naziści (poczytak sobie o Weiße Rose czy von Galenie), i nie wszyscy naziści to Niemcy... Wiesz, trochę to smutne: programik jest o odkłamywaniu popularnych ale nieprawdziwych opini, a ty tu taką bzdurę walisz.

[1048luca]

Who are the authors of this movie?

This not unbelievable, though.

There are many people and many lobbies today interested in pointing out Poles as responsible for the holocaust! Especially since Poland HAVE NOT PAYED the 60MLD USD to the Jewish World Congress and the "restitution organisations"!

FUCKIN' bastards!