Poland’s president says there was no institutionalised participation by Poland or its people in the Holocaust, but acknowledges that individual Poles took “wicked” actions against Jewish neighbours.
President Andrzej Duda said on Monday that he would never allow Poland and Poles in general to be “vilified” though “false accusations”.
Duda seemed to be reacting to anger in Israel over a bill that would prohibit public statements assigning to “the Polish nation” responsibility for crimes committed by Nazi Germany during its World War II occupation of Poland.
Read the news items in The Australian (Associated Press).