A Polish prosecutor interrogated a Jewish historian who researched Polish complicity in the Holocaust to determine if he had criminally insulted the nation.
Jan Tomasz Gross, a Polish-American professor based at Princeton University, published an article in the German newspaper Die Welt that said Poles “had killed more Jews than the Germans” during World War II.
Gross was questioned for five hours Tuesday in the district attorney’s office in Katowice. His article published by Die Welt last September concerned the Syrian refugee issue and the lack of consent to their absorption by Poland.
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*blink* wow, that’s a pretty bold statement to have made.
Utterly not shown in the title here…Report
Oh, now I see it.Report
“Holocaust scholar grilled…”
I’m assuming that wasn’t on purpose.Report
This sort of thing is a disgrace. If the guy’s numbers are wrong or his research is flawed then that’s for other scholars to expose and dispute but even the threat of prosecution serves to stifle inquiry. The Polish government needs to put on its big boy pants.Report
Bill Nye thinks its hunky dory.Report
This is what happens when you “feelz”
But frankly, if he can’t back up the claim, and no one else can affirm the findings, it seems a clear case of libel/slander (which ever one it is).Report
I’m not sure how it works in Europe but in the United States it would be hard to make a case for libel (libel is written, slander is spoken) when the falsehood was about a group, especially a group so large and amorphous as the Polish nation. My reading of the article is that he said Poles generally, not a particular Pole or even group of Poles who could be identified as being libeled.Report
The Poles were so angered by these baseless accusations that they burned a synagogue.Report