Warsaw
– Poland’s foreign minister on Friday defended the country’s education
minister, saying her remarks, which appeared to deny
Polish responsibility for two massacres of Jews in the 1940s, have been
misunderstood.
The
comments by Foreign Minister Witold Wszczykowski showed that the on-and-off
soul searching in Poland regarding the Holocaust is far from over.
Waszczykowski,
on a visit to Washington, said “I will keep patiently explaining [to the
critics] that they have misunderstood minister Zalewska’s words.” He did
not elaborate how the comments were misunderstood.
