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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I cannot leave yet another attack on the Polish flag unanswered. I shall therefore give an honest and straightforward reply. Polish flags will hang here for as long as they hang above the President of the European Parliament, in accordance with European law.
No one can ever be in any doubt that the Holocaust, which was an unprecedented crime, should be condemned. On behalf of the Polish Members of this House, however, I should like to stress that our reaction to Parliament’s joint resolution on the Auschwitz concentration camp does not seem to have been properly understood by the Western media and public. There are therefore a few facts that I should like to draw to your attention.
References to so-called Polish concentration camps, such as Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek and Sobibor, have regularly appeared in the European press, and especially the English-language press, for many years. This is a hideous distortion of history, as the references ought to be to German concentration camps on German-occupied Polish territory, and not to Polish concentration camps. I should like to cite one single example that should make this clear. In France, 50 km from Strasbourg, the Germans built the Struthof concentration camp near the town of Schirmeck. This has never been referred to as the French concentration camp named Studtoff. It has always been called a German concentration camp on French territory. No one in their right mind would call the camp at Guantanamo a Cuban camp. The phrase used by Mr Schulz in the original version of the resolution, and I quote; ‘the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland’, came very close to suggesting that it might have been a Polish concentration camp. Our indignation and anger should therefore come as no surprise to you, given that such false portrayals of history are knowingly being presented.
Secondly, the joint compromise resolution refers only to Hitler’s Nazis as perpetrators. We would note at this point that Hitler was democratically elected by the vast majority of Germans. National Socialism was not forced on the Germans..."@en1
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