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Polish PM: Holocaust bill needed, but timing wasn't good

We should better explained intentions to the world

02 February, 18:05
(ANSA) - WARSAW - Poland's legislation regulating Holocaust speech could have been timed and presented better, the prime minister acknowledged Friday, but he insisted that the law is needed to defend historical truth.

Mateusz Morawiecki spoke on Friday at a museum that memorializes Christian Poles who risked their lives to help Jews during the German occupation of Poland during World War II. He defended the law, calling it necessary to protect historical truth and prevent the Polish people as a whole from being blamed for the murder of Jews during the Nazi occupation from 1939 to 1945.

"All the atrocities and all the victims, everything that happened during World War II on Polish soil, has to be attributed to Germany," Morawiecki said. "We will never be accused of complicity in the Holocaust. This is our 'to be or not to be. This law is not going to limit speech, not even one iota," Morawiecki said. He did, however, say that Poland should have better explained its intentions to the world, and acknowledged the timing was "unfortunate." (ANSA).

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