German magazine accuses Poles of WWII collaboration

22nd May 2009

Old wounds between Germany and Poland opened up again this week following a report in the German magazine Der Spiegel that Poles had collaborated with the forces of the Third Reich during the war.


In a three-page article entitled “The Accomplices: Hitler’s European Helpers” the magazine names Polish farmers as collaborators in the Nazi holocaust against the Jews.

While Poland’s Foreign Minister, Radek Sikorski, referred to the article as nothing more than the “the right to free speech” other Polish politicians launched a furious attack on the famed magazine.

“Soon it will turn out that Poles were responsible for the outbreak of World War II, and Germans were the main vic ...