WARSAW, Poland, Jan. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC
Central Europe has called on Poland's government to take concrete steps to
monitor and counter the activities of Neo-Nazi groups.
AJC sent letters to the Minister of the Interior and
Administration and the Minister of Justice following the broadcast
Saturday evening on Polish news channel TVN24 of a documentary on
two organizations, the "Pride and Modernity" association and "The
Eagle's Nest" foundation, involved in spreading Nazi ideology and
glorifying NSDAP (the Nazi party) leadership.
The program showed events in Poland marking the 128th anniversary of
Adolf Hitler's birth. Participants
carried Nazi flags, wore Nazi German uniforms, ate a
swastika-decorated cake, and toasted Hitler as a "very decent man"
and a "gentleman." The hidden camera captured words abusive towards
the Jewish community, including anti-Semitic terms with expletives
that can be considered punishable under Polish law.
"Nazi glorification in 21st century Poland is outrageous and must be condemned
unequivocally," said AJC Central Europe Director Agnieszka Markiewicz. "Poland was the utmost victim of the German
Third Reich and its Jewish community lost 90 percent of its
population. Poles in general were decimated. One can hardly find a
family in Poland that was not
affected by the barbarities of Nazism."
Markiewicz emphasized that "though the Prime Minister and two
senior government ministers condemned on Twitter the incidents
shown in the documentary, Poland
has yet to effectively confront the rising threat of radical
nationalism and neo-Nazism. Those who preach fascist ideology and
racial hatred should be brought to justice."
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SOURCE American Jewish Committee