Poland wants punishments for use of 'Polish death camp' phrase


  • World
  • Sunday, 14 Feb 2016

Visitors gather on the grounds of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau near Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2016, to mark the 71st anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops and to remember the victims of the Holocaust. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland is drawing up new regulations to punish use of the phrase "Polish death camps" when referring to wartime Nazi concentration camps on Polish soil, Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said on Saturday.

Poland has long sought to eliminate the misleading phrase from historical and newspaper accounts since it suggests the country, which was occupied by Nazi Germany during World War Two, was responsible for Holocaust-era camps on its territory.

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