Polish PM: There were Jewish perpetrators in Holocaust
Poland's prime minister rejected Saturday criticism of a law criminalizing some statements about the country's actions during World War II, saying that it won't be punishable to say that there were Polish perpetrators.
The legislation outlaws public statements that falsely and intentionally attribute Nazi crimes to Poland under the German occupation.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Polish embassies had to respond 260 times last year to statements that there were "Polish death camps." The Nazis built such camps in occupied Polish territory.
Morawiecki told the Munich Security Conference: "Of course it's not going to be punishable, not going to be seen as criminal to say that there were Polish perpetrators, as there were Jewish perpetrators, as there were Russian perpetrators, as there were Ukrainian; not only German perpetrators."
