Protesting Too Much

The Polish government is most unhappy with President Obama for referring to a "Polish death camp" rather than a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland."

There is no question that the Camp in question was a German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. And there is no question that many Poles acquitted themselves righteously.

However, the Polish attitude towards the Holocaust is often distasteful. To listen to the Polish tour guide who took me through Auschwitz, one might have realized that it was Jews and not Poles generally that were targeted. There is no question that Poland was not simply hospitable to its Jewish residents and that it was not, simply, an innocent, helpless, victim, of the holocaust.