US envoy to Poland apologises for FBI Director's Holocaust comments

Day after Poland voiced its indignation over the comments made by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey on the Holocaust, U.S. envoy Stephen Mull has issued an apology.

The nation, which underwent unspeakable horror during the Holocaust, had summoned Mull to register protest against Comey's statements and had demanded an apology from the U.S.

After attending ceremonies marking the 72nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis, Mull clarified the U.S.' position by saying that any suggestion that Poland or any other country, barring Nazi Germany, bore any responsibility for the Holocaust, was "a mistake, harmful and insulting," reported Fox News.

He also noted that Nazi Germany alone bore the responsibility and added that he now had a lot of work before him to make things right in the situation.

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."

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