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Saturday, December 5, 2009

Poland: Sobibor not 'Polish camp'

Poland said Friday it had filed protests over foreign media's use of the term "Polish camp" for the Sobibor death camp set up by Nazi Germany in the occupied country during World War II.
Foreign ministry spokesman Piotr Paszkowski told AFP that Warsaw objected to the wording in reports on the trial in Germany of Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, 89, accused of helping as a guard to murder 27,900 people at the camp in 1943.  
"The Polish embassy in Madrid has intervened following the use of the expression 'Polish concentration camp' by several Spanish media," Paszkowski said.