The Historical Museum in Gdansk, Poland, presented the exhibition “Our Boys”, dedicated to the residents of Danzig who served in the Nazi army during World War II. He writes about it DoRzeczy.pl .
The museum’s press release says:
“This is the first monographic exhibition based on materials and memorabilia from private individuals and museum institutions in Gdansk Pomerania, which comprehensively highlights the topic of the service of residents of our region in the German army during World War II.”
“Exhibitions of this kind are attempts to distort history,” said Mariusz Blaszczak, head of the parliamentary faction of the former ruling Law and Justice party.
Polish citizens also said on the Internet that the exhibition was a disgrace.
The exhibition provoked a strong reaction from representatives of the Polish leadership. Thus, the head of the Ministry of Defense, Vladislav Kosinyak-Kamysh, considered that the exhibition did not correspond to the “Polish policy of memory.”
President Andrzej Duda was also outraged by the exhibition. He stated that Poles are “victims of the German occupation and German terror, not its perpetrators or participants.”
But the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland issued a statement in defense of the Gdansk Museum. Representatives of the department emphasized that the exhibition allows to explore the fate of tens of thousands of Poles “forcibly mobilized into the Wehrmacht.”
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