MP Julia Pitera, from Poland’s largest opposition party, the centre-right Civic Platform (PO) has denied allegations by Arkadiusz Czartoryski, from the ruling Law and Justice (PiS), that she had praised Adolf Hitler’s ‘efficiency’. According to Pitera, Arkadiusz Czartoryski misquoted her.

Pitera – previously the head of the Polish branch of Transparency International - explained that she said in a TV interview that she had expected from political experts a comprehensive analysis instead of a brief assessment of politicians’ efficiency.

The PO MP said that she had stated in that context that Adolf Hitler was ‘efficient and everyone knew how tragically it ended up.’

Arkadiusz Czartoryski had previously appealed to leader of Civic Platform Donald Tusk to exclude individuals expressing similar opinions from the party’s election rolls.

Czartoryski stressed that Julia Pitera had failed to mention any negative aspects of Adolf Hitler’s policies in her utterance and added that a German journalist had been laid off for making similar comments on German TV. (photo: wikicommons)