Deputy mayor defends Nazi war crimes

9th October 2010

The deputy mayor of Lodz has provoked outrage with a recent statement in which he claims that the Nazis did nothing wrong.

42-year-old Arkadiusz Karbowiak of Civic Platform (PO), made the comments in an article for a neo-Nazi newspaper in which he also claimed that The Nuremberg Trials “set a dangerous precedent”.

He wrote; “Instead of making up loads of nonsense about Nazi crimes - which in a legal sense weren’t actually crimes at all - we need to ask ourselves ‘What was the sense of prosecuting them?’ Especially when you look at what they did in the context of biological survival of the nation.”

But despite claims from Karbowiak that he “has never questioned the cr ...