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From: "Langsdorf" <>
Subject: Re: [POLAND] FW: Poland's role in Nazi genocide - sloppy editing or sloppy writing?
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 18:58:58 -0600
References: <B9F17588.9287%swisniowski@px.com.au>
Stephen - thank you for sharing this. I applaud your response. Obviously
the author of this article did not research his subject for had he he would
have honored the hundreds of thousands of Poles executed for their efforts
to aid/shelter jews.
J.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Wisniowski" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:07 PM
Subject: [POLAND] FW: Poland's role in Nazi genocide - sloppy editing or
sloppy writing?
> Following Alan's posting about his response to another article on a
similar
> theme, this one in Australia and perhaps even shoddier than The Times one.
> I have also referred this to the local Polonia organisations and to the
> Australian Human Rights Commission.
>
> Stefan
>
> ----------
> From: Stefan Wisniowski <>
> Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:58:18 +1100
> To: <>
> Subject: Poland's role in Nazi genocide - sloppy editing or sloppy
writing?
>
>
> To the editor of ABC Online, Australian Broadcasting Commission
>
> Dear editor
>
> I refer to your unattributed news item of November 3, 2002 entitled
> "Researchers unearth Poland's role in Nazi genocide"
> (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2002/11/item20021103101459_1.htm)
>
> This story, which impunes the reputation of Poland as a country, is either
> based in journalistic sloppiness or in deliberate slander. I assume it is
> the former - not a crime, but a disgrace.
>
> Your headline refers to "Poland's role in Nazi genocide" and the story
> refers to "Poland's treatment of Jews during World War II". Yet the facts
> are that "Researchers in Poland say they have found new evidence more
Poles
> than previously thought were involved in massacres of Jews during the Nazi
> occupation."
>
> This story is equivalent to a news story reporting "Investigators unearth
> Indonesia's role in Bali bombing" when the facts are that the suspected
> terrorists are Indonesian citizens, rather than the state apparatus
> organised the massacre.
>
> Poles are individuals, some of whom may be criminals or murderers, as in
any
> country including Australia and Indonesia. On the other hand, Poland is a
> sovereign state directed by a national government. During WW2 the Polish
> territory was under joint occupation of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
> "Poland" did not exist, and there was no collaborationist government as in
> other occupied states.
>
> I request that you issue an apology to the Poland and its citizens, and
> correct your story immediately.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan Wisniowski
> Sydney NSW Australia
>
> ---------------
> "Researchers unearth Poland's role in Nazi genocide"
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2002/11/item20021103101459_1.htm
>
> "Researchers in Poland say they have found new evidence more Poles than
> previously thought were involved in massacres of Jews during the Nazi
> occupation.
>
> Poland's Institute for National Remembrance maintains Poles probably
> participated in at least 30 anti-Jewish programs in Nazi-occupied
> territories in 1941.
>
> Poland's treatment of Jews during World War II has undergone much scrutiny
> recently.
>
> A book published two years ago by the same institute sparked widespread
> public debate in Poland, after it revealed Poles, not Nazis, had massacred
> hundreds of Jews in the town of Jedwabne."
>
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