A row has erupted following comments by Poland’s former foreign minister, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, that he was more afraid of fellow Poles during World War II than Nazi German officers.

Soon after, Marta Kaczynska, the daughter of late president Lech Kaczynski, wrote on her blog that historian and Auschwitz veteran Bartoszewski had “damaged Poland’s image” following an interview Bartoszewski  (pictured right) gave with the German Die Welt daily.

Tomasz Nalecz, presidential advisor to Bronislaw Komorowski slammed the remarks during a radio interview, Wednesday morning, calling Kaczynska “ignorant,” adding that he believes Kaczynska “has compromised herself in an incredible way.”

Nalecz went on to defend Bartoszewski, an historian who was a prisoner at the Nazi German concentration camp of Auschwitz, by saying that “there only a handful of [people] in Poland who could challenge Bartoszewski’s knowledge of World War II.” (jb)

Source: Dziennik.pl