Re: Karol Nawrocki, right-wing Holocaust revisionist historian, elected Polish president

On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 16:35:09 -0400, Loose Cannon wrote:

Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian involved in Poland’s recent
efforts to revise Holocaust history to minimize the role of local
collaborators, has been elected president of Poland.
 
Nawrocki eked out a narrow victory over Rafal Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s
liberal-centrist mayor, in a runoff election on Sunday. His election
marks a return to power for the Law and Justice Party, which led Poland
from 2015 until 2023 and endorsed Nawrocki, who was relatively unknown
before entering the race late last year. It will stymie efforts by the
country’s centrist prime minister to make reforms.
 
The election carried steep stakes for how Poland memorializes the
Holocaust, when 3 million Polish Jews were murdered in a Nazi campaign
supported by Polish collaborators.
 
Law and Justice promoted historical narratives about Polish victimhood
and resistance to the Nazis, while delegitimizing research on Polish
antisemitism or Poles who killed Jews. In 2018, the country passed a law
that outlawed accusing Poland or the Polish people of complicity in Nazi
crimes. Although the infraction was downgraded from a crime punishable
with three years in prison to a civil offense, critics say it had a
chilling effect on historical research.
 
https://www.jta.org/2025/06/03/global/karol-nawrocki-right-wing-

holocaust-revisionist-historian-elected-polish-president

 
 
Looks like the Polaks got it right this time.

Żydów gubi brak umiaru we wszystkim i przekonanie, że są narodem
wybranym. Czują się oni upoważnieni do interpretowania wszystkiego,
także doktryny katolickiej. Cokolwiek byśmy zrobili, i tak będzie
poddane ich krytyce - za mało, że źle, że zbyt mało ofiarnie. W moim
najgłębszym przekonaniu szkoda czasu na dialog z Żydami, bo on do
niczego nie prowadzi... Ludzi, którzy uzywają słów 'antysemitą',
'antysemicki', należy traktować jak ludzi niegodnych debaty, którzy
usiłują niszczyć innych, gdy brakuje argumentów merytorycznych. To oni
tworzą mowę nienawiści.