The US ambassador to Poland has reiterated his support for Warsaw’s efforts to counter what it describes as longstanding historical misrepresentations about the country’s role during the Holocaust.
Responding to Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski’s public praise a day earlier, Ambassador Thomas Rose wrote on social media: “Thank you so much Mr. Deputy Prime Minister Radosław Sikorski - every fact I cited was undisputed. The world needs to hear the truth about your great country!”
Rose’s remarks follow his speech last week at an international conference in Warsaw, where he rejected claims that Poland had shared responsibility for the Holocaust, calling such accusations a distortion of history.
The ambassador stressed that Nazi Germany alone conceived and carried out the genocide, while Poland was under occupation and suffered mass atrocities at the hands of the regime.
Sikorski welcomed Rose’s intervention, arguing that Poland has long been burdened by narratives that wrongly imply national complicity in crimes carried out by the German occupiers.
The diplomat noted that the Polish wartime government operated from exile in London and had repeatedly appealed to the Allies for help in stopping the genocide.
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