Using diplomacy against German journalists

The German television broadcaster ZDF is facing two legal actions because the term "Polish extermination camps" was used in one of its programmes. Poland must defend itself through diplomatic rather than legal channels, writes Bartosz Wieliński in the liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza: "I doubt that anyone writes about 'Polish camps' with deliberate evil intentions, trying to give us the blame for the Holocaust. The reason behind this is simply plain ignorance. The ZDF journalists simply thought that the camp in Sobibór was Polish because the Germans set it up in occupied Poland. The editing department has disgraced itself, but you can't be brought to trial for ignorance. … The dispute over the 'Polish camps' should be fought by diplomats. Their protests can really have an impact."

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