Welcome fellow steemit users. This is my first post here, and today i wanted to translate an article posted by a polish newspaper "Wirtualna Polska" about that whole situation with "Polish death camps". Sorry if translation is not too good bcs most of the text is translated with google translator bcs my english in current state is not that good to translate all the text by myself.
Here is the article.
Poll among Americans. Did you hear about "Polish death camps"?
What do Americans know about the Second World War, the Holocaust and the "Polish death camps"? It turns out that quite a lot. They answer without hesitation that they were not led by Poles.
The knowledge of ordinary Americans decided to check the correspondent of the Polish Radio, who carried the probe in front of the White House. Passers-by were confronted with such questions about "Polish death camps", who were the Nazis and the Second World War.
Most of the respondents claimed that the Nazis were responsible for the death camps. Asked who the Nazis were, they answered without hesitation that they were Germans. They also heard about "Polish death camps", but this is a geographical term for them. Most of those questioned had no doubt that they were led by Germans. They also did not attribute responsibility for the Holocaust to Poland and Poles.
The correspondent of Polish Radio in the USA asked one of the Americans surveyed whether she had heard about "Polish death camps". - No. They do not teach it at school - she replied. - They teach that Germans, Nazis, murdered Jews, Poles and everyone they considered to be representatives of the ideal race - she added.
In recent years, the terms "Polish death camps" appeared in the American media. The editors of the Washington Post and even the president of the United States did not escape the mistake. Barack Obama during the ceremony of honoring the Jan Karski Medal of Freedom spoke about "Polish camps". Later it was explained that Barack Obama had in mind the geographical location. The unfortunate term is also nothing but a grammatical error.
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