Poland said today (April 19, 2015) it has demanded a formal apology from the United States after the head of the FBI claimed Poland shares responsibility for the Holocaust with Germany, the Daily Mail (British) website reports.
U.S. Ambassador Stephen Mull will "receive a note of protest and a summons for an apology" over the comments made by FBI director James Comey, foreign ministry spokesman Marcin Wojciechowski said today.
Comey's April 16 opinion piece in the Washington Post has sparked outrage among Polish politicians and media who see his comments as wrongly stating that Poland willingly played a key role in Nazi Germany's genocide of six million European Jews in the Holocaust during World War II.
"In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil," Comey wrote in the piece titled "Why I require FBI agents to visit the Holocaust Museum." Comey added, "They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do."
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