'Irate' Poland demands apology over FBI Director Comey's 'holocaust comments'

Poland has reportedly summoned the U.S. envoy to register protest against the comments made by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey on the Holocaust and demanded an apology.

In an article published in The Washington Post on Thursday, aimed at raising education about the Holocaust, Comey wrote, "In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do," reported the BBC.

The foreign ministry said that it appeared as if Comey was suggesting that Poles were accomplices.

After being summoned, U.S. ambassador Stephen Mull said that he clarified that America believed that "Nazi Germany alone" was responsible for the heinous act.

At least six million Polish citizens were exterminated by the Nazis during World War Two, half of them Jewish.