According to the head of the FBI Poles and the Holocaust caused a diplomatic row – Moskovsky Komsomolets

American ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Minister of Poland to present a protest note

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The head of the FBI James Comey said that Poland is responsible for the extermination of the Jews during the Second World War, along with Nazi Germany. Polish Embassy in the United States sent a letter of Komi, calling it a “unacceptable” and President Bronislaw Komorowski said that the head of the FBI does not know the history and behaves ignorantly.

FBI Director James Comey laid the responsibility for the Holocaust on Poland and equated the Poles and Hungarians to the Nazis. Speaking April 15 at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, he said: “The murderers and their assistants from Germany, Poland, Hungary and many other places in their understanding did not do anything wrong. They have convinced themselves that it is – the right thing, that they must do” .

After these statements between Poland and the United States broke diplomatic scandal present. Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said that the words of the head the FBI indicate “a lack of historical knowledge” and were “an insult to the thousands of Poles who helped Jews”.

During the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany during the Second World War were killed about six million people, about half of them were Jews. Historical documents are described as cases of extradition Polish Jews to the Nazis, and the episodes in which the inhabitants of Poland helped risked their lives to save Jewish families from the Nazis, notes “to Lenta.ru”.

As a result, the US Ambassador to Poland Stephen Mullen had on Sunday to defend his words of director of the FBI’s involvement in the Holocaust of Poles, reports Tass. The diplomat noted after a visit to the Foreign Ministry, where he was due for delivery notes because of this incident, Komi “was not going to say that Poland is in some sense responsible,” and wanted to say that “the world was a lot of people who helped Nazi criminals or insufficiently respond “.

” I made it clear that the view that Poland in any way responsible for the Holocaust is not the position of the United States, “- said the ambassador. “Any suggestion that Poland or any other country except the Nazi Germany, is responsible for the Holocaust, wrongly, harmful and offensive” – ​​said Mull.

Let us recall that in 2012, US President Barack Obama has caused outrage in Warsaw, when he called the Nazi concentration camps created “Polish death camp”.