Poland wants Nazi camps to drop the .pl suffix on websites

What's the big deal? They are in Poland. I'm sure the local gov rub their hands with the prospect of tax revenue that tourists bring when they go there to visit such places.

anything that helpes Poland avoid getting blamed for the holocaust, the death camps and anything else helps.

Nobody blames them,

Anyone with half a brain would instantly know that the camps weren't a Polish invention and that it was a Nazi thing.

there's an international effort to shift the blame for Nazi crimes from Germans to Poles

Only in the minds of the paranoid.

No sh*t Sherlock, there were literally hundreds of "mistakes" where death camps were called "polish" or "operated by Poles" "run by Poles" etc, thats bloody intentional.

Only in the minds of the paranoid.

Yeah......sure its intentional...if you are that paranoid then that's your fault. Normal folk who have been educated will know that truth.

So hundreds of cases where in the recent few years Poland was, often outright blamed for German crimes are a coincidence? Sorry not buying it.

Media excersize a far greater influence than education.

Evidence?

Oh f*ck you twat, after all the anti-polish comments you made? You can browse the web yourself, google is a simple tool and when you type in polish death camps you get enough anwers.

Anyone with half a brain would instantly know that the camps weren't a Polish invention and that it was a Nazi thing.

Oh f*ck you twat, after all the anti-polish comments you made? You can browse the web yourself, google is a simple tool and when you type in polish death camps you get enough anwers.

we're looking for evidence here.

Polish death camp and Polish concentration camp are terms that occasionally appear in international media in reference to Nazi German concentration camps built and run by during the Holocaust in the General Government and other parts of occupied Poland. Usage of the term has been condemned as "insulting" by the Polish foreign minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld in 2005,

An example of the controversy occurred when an April 30, 2004 CTV News report made reference to "the Polish camp in Treblinka"

The incorrect phrase 'Polish concentration camps' is used in school textbooks outside Poland to refer to the Nazi German concentration camps on occupied Polish territory

On December 23, 2009, writing in The Guardian, Timothy Garton Ash said:

Watching a German television news report on the trial of John Demjanjuk a few weeks ago, I was amazed to hear the announcer describe him as a guard in "the Polish extermination camp Sobibor". What times are these, when one of the main German TV channels thinks it can describe Nazi camps as "Polish"? In my experience, the automatic equation of Poland with Catholicism, nationalism and antisemitism – and thence a slide to guilt by association with the Holocaust – is still widespread. This collective stereotyping does no justice to the historical record.

I agree with Sokrates to an extent.

Normal folk who have been educated will know that truth.

Media excersize a far greater influence than education.

For such a history buff, you seem to leave out a great amount on why exactly so many camps were built in Poland.

I do not have so much faith in humanity.

And the result may be, for example:

However, all foreign media articles so criticized by Rzeczpospolita (as of November 2008) make clear that the perpetrators were German, none claims Poles built the camps.

As stated by the IPN official, while in Poland 'Nazi' is definitely connected to 'German' this is not the case everywhere in the world, and the change will help to solve the problem.

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better than burning them.......I bought the commandants diaries from the "gift shop", I dont remember any tacky souvineers though,certainly not inside the camp.

Doubt it.

For such a history buff, you seem to leave out a great amount on why exactly so many camps were built in Poland.

I didn't say that. I only was making the point that the places was more like a tourist attraction than a place to be educated on the horrors of what happened there.

I've never met anyone who associated the word "Nazi" with anything other than "Germany"

Isn't it both?

I really do not share your faith in humanity that people are educated enough or care enough to see a difference and as we talk about Polish death camps, Polish death camps is what they become.

I didn't say that. I only was making the point that the places was more like a tourist attraction than a place to be educated on the horrors of what happened there.

No, it's a place of remembrance. To learn about the horrors of humanity so not to repeat them.

The problem is that we really aren't talking about Polish Death Camps at all.