"Polish" camps.Toronto--One of the smaller irritations that Polish representatives in other countries were unwilling to correct as long as Poland remained a Soviet Marxist republic (1944-1989) was the reference to Nazi or German concentration camps in Poland as "Polish camps." The new Poland takes a more aggressive stand against this distortion. Words are important, as Canada's CTV News CTV News is the news division of the CTV television network in Canada, and the name of the local and regional newscasts on the network's owned and operated stations. National programs CTV News produces the following national programs:
Poland's ambassador to Canada demanded an apology and a correction from CTV CTV Canadian Television (Network Limited) and also protested the word usage to the Canadian government. The ambassador explained that the wording was an insult to millions of Polish people who sacrificed their lives in the fight against Nazi Germany. (Editor: 3.5 million Catholics as well as 3 million Jewish Polish inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. died.) "The only internationally accepted and historians-verified term," the ambassador said, "is 'the Nazi concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.'" Labelling the camp as 'Polish' shifts the responsibility for its operation, thus falsifying fal·si·fy v. fal·si·fied, fal·si·fy·ing, fal·si·fies v.tr. 1. To state untruthfully; misrepresent. 2. a. the fundamental truth about the Holocaust perpetrators. On August 19, CTV News reported that it would no longer use the term "Polish concentration camps" in referring to Nazi German camps in occupied Poland during World War II The German camps in occupied Poland during World War II were built by Nazi Germany during its occupation of Poland (1939-1945). A system of camps of various kinds was established across the country. . |
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