A mobile billboard reading “Death Camps Were Nazi German” has been launched
in Wrocław, south-western Poland headed for the UK through Germany and Belgium.
The programme is to protest the use of the term “Polish concentration
camps” by foreign media.
The billboard trailer is the brainchild of a Polish NGO.
“The idea of our campaign is simple. We demand the historical truth, we
oppose the use of the term ‘Polish concentration camps’, which is commonly used
by Western media,” said Dawid Hallmann, from the Fundacji Tradycji Miast i Wsi
NGO which designed the billboard.
The use of the term "Polish concentration camp” by international media
outlets has sparked numerous complaints from Poland in recent years, prompting
some news agencies to change their style guidelines.
In 2007, following a Polish request, the World Heritage Committee attempted
to clarify the matter by listing the Auschwitz camp as a "German Nazi
Concentration and Extermination Camp".
Internet users have taken to social media in recent days to campaign
against German broadcaster ZDF's alleged failure to apologise properly to a
Polish survivor of Auschwitz for the use of the term.
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