Poland said an article by FBI Director James Comey wrongly suggested it was complicit in the Nazi Holocaust.
The U.S. Ambassador to Poland has apologized for remarks made by FBI Director James Comey in a Washington Post article last week that suggested Poland was complicit in the Holocaust.
FBI Director James Comey.
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It included the following passage:
"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. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us."
Immediately after the publication of the speech, Poland's Ambassador in Washington, Ryszard Schnepf, wrote a letter to Comey over the "unacceptable" suggestion that "Poland shared responsibility for the Holocaust."
According to a statement published Saturday on the Polish Embassy website, the letter "[protested] against the falsification of history, especially for accusing Poles of perpetrating crimes which not only did they not commit, but which they themselves were victims of."
Holocaust survivor Igor Malitsky of Ukraine walks outside the gate of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015.
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SOURCE: BuzzFeed
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