She and Obama may have been ignorant of the fact that the Nazis deliberately chose to hide their worst dirty work on occupied foreign soil, away from the eyes of Germans and neutral diplomats, a fact that Poles deeply resent.
Calling them “Polish” death camps is an implicit smear against the Polish people. The worst nationality you could be during World War II, from the point of view of survival, was a Jew. The second worse was Polish. The very, very worse off were Polish Jews.
I told someone here - it’s kinda like referring to the Bataan Death Camp (or march) as the Filipino Death Camp instead of a Japanese Death Camp. Then he understood. He’s Filipino.
I told someone here - it’s kinda like referring to the Bataan Death Camp (or march) as the Filipino Death Camp instead of a Japanese Death Camp. Then he understood. He’s Filipino.
I told someone here - it’s kinda like referring to the Bataan Death Camp (or march) as the Filipino Death Camp instead of a Japanese Death Camp. Then he understood. He’s Filipino.
“Calling them Polish death camps is an implicit smear against the Polish people.”
It’s not that the president so obviously misspoke, it’s his narcissistic refusal to stand up and say, “Oh crap, I’m terribly sorry. I didn’t mean it that way,” for the good of diplomacy. It tells us a lot about why this man must go. It’s all about Obama not the diplomatic good of the country.
A handshake and some kind public words would have gone a long way to smoothing things over. There would have been no story.