Merkel: Germany will live up to its Holocaust responsibility

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Last Updated : Feb 10 2018 | 7:25 PM IST
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she won't interfere with a law that criminalises certain statements about Poland's World War II history because, "as Germans, we are responsible for the things that happened during the Holocaust."
Merkel said in her weekly podcast today that the onus on Germany from the Holocaust is something every government will acknowledge and have to address.
The Polish law allows prison terms of up to three years for statements attributing Nazi crimes in German-occupied Poland to the Polish nation.
It has caused a diplomatic dispute with Israel, which fears it will enable Poland to whitewash the role of Poles who killed or denounced Jews during the occupation.
Merkel is scheduled to meet Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Berlin yesterday.

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First Published: Feb 10 2018 | 7:25 PM IST

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