Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Obama polish death camp

  • Poles and Polish-Americans expressed outraged Tuesday at President Obamas reference earlier that day to a Polish death camp - as opposed to a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • 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.
  • (Wall Street Journal)
  • President Obama used the term "Polish death camp" in a speech Tuesday honoring Polish resistance hero Jan Karski at a ceremony awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom, setting off a firestorm of angry retort from Polish dignitaries abroard.
  • (Daily Beast)
  • US President Barack Obama has upset Poles by using the term Polish death camp while awarding a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to a Polish World War II hero.
  • (Warsaw Voice)
  • 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)
  • Karski served as an officer in the Polish Underground during World War II and carried among the first eye-witness accounts of the Holocaust to the world.
  • (KGO-AM810)
  • WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Barack Obama Polish Underground during World War II and carried among the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the world.
  • (Denver Channel)
  • Obama and the leaders of the worlds leading industrial nations convened at Camp David, the presidential retreat in including the U.S. raid in Pakistan that led to the death of Osama bin Laden and a U.S.
  • (MyFox Chicago)
  • WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama the Polish Underground during World War II and carried among the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the world.
  • (Los Angeles Wave Newspapers)

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