Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Obama polish death camp

  • President Barack Obamas reference Tuesday to a Polish death camp while honoring a Polish war hero is drawing complaints from a Polish cultural organization.
  • (San Francisco Gate)
  • Poles and Polish-Americans expressed outrage today at President Obama's reference earlier to "a Polish death camp" — as opposed to a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland.
  • (ABC News)
  • The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian honor a president can bestow, so there is little doubt that President Barack Obama did not intend to insult the home country of one of the honorees.
  • (MyFox Dallas)
  • Washington The White House said President Barack Obama misspoke on Tuesday when he referred to a "Polish death camp" while honouring a Polish war hero.
  • (Gulf News)
  • President Obama today bestowed a posthumous Medal of Freedom He then referenced, in his phrase, a Polish death camp—as if Auschwitz were a Polish project.
  • (Daily Beast)
  • Mr Obamas gaffe was widely reported on Polish television and extensive online fact sheet advising on how to correct journalists who use the phrase Polish death camp. We cannot allow history to be distorted, the guide says.
  • (Daily Telegraph)
  • What sets these men and women apart is the incredible impact they have had on so many people, Obama transit camp, where he saw first-hand the atrocities occurring under Nazi occupation.
  • (USA Today)
  • The ceremony, led by President Barack Obama, took place today the Nazi-run Warsaw Ghetto and the Izbica transit camp, he then clandestinely traveled across Europe as a courier for the Polish Underground.
  • (Marketwatch)
  • White House: Obama misspoke on Polish death camp White House: Obama misspoke on Polish death camp President Barack Obamas reference Tuesday to a Polish death camp while honoring a Polish war hero is drawing complaints from a Polish cultural organization.
  • (MyFox Tampa Bay)

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