“Polish Death Camps”, a controversial phrase that has garnered a lot of controversy as of late, with Poland looking to pass a law that outlaws calling the concentration camps that were in Poland by that name. The country has gone so far as to place considerable fines and even up to three years jail time for any person that refers to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as a “Polish Death Camp.”

The reasoning behind this is that, despite the fact that most of the victims in these concentration camps were Jewish, a number of them were also ethnic Poles. In addition to the terms themselves being censored, the country is also banning any mention of Poland being complicit in the Holocaust at all, though prior to the Holocaust and World War II, Poles were widely anti-Semitic, and some even contributed to the systematic execution of almost an entire race.

This censorship is truly a step back in Holocaust awareness, and hopefully other countries do not follow suit in this blatant falsification of history.