• 'Die Welt' apologises for calling Nazi camp Polish.
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  • 26.11.2008

 

Following protests from the Polish Embassy in Germany and the Polish Foreign Ministry, the Die Welt newspaper expressed regret over its reference to the Nazi-run Majdanek concentration camp as a ‘Polish camp’.

Report by Michal Kubicki.

This raises a number of questions. Are Poles over-sensitive about the wording used in this and similar cases?

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