"Polish death camps" [View all]

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US President Barack Obama's description of a Nazi German Holocaust site as a "Polish death camp" shocked Poland, whose leaders insist the record be set straight 67 years after World War II.

Obama on Tuesday labeled the Nazi facility used to process Jews for extermination as a "Polish death camp." The White House later said the president "misspoke" and expressed "regret".

The linguistic faux pas overshadowed Obama's posthumous award of the highest US civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Jan Karski, a former Polish underground officer who provided early eyewitness accounts of Nazi Germany's genocide of European Jews.

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday Obama's words had hurt all Poles and he expected more from Washington than just "regret".

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-nazi-death-camp-gaffe-hurt-poles-pm-110505006.html

Oops. I can't see this as anything other than what is described in the article citation. Still, I can understand why the Poles would want an explicit correction; who wants to be tied to the Nazis even if mistakenly so.

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	Obama should apologize personally
	14 (58%)
	Obama should personally clarify but not apologize
	0 (0%)
	Let the State Dept apologize and call it good
	0 (0%)
	Let the State Dept clarify but not apologize
	1 (4%)
	We already said we regretted it. They should get over it
	6 (25%)
	An apology would be good in general. It never hurts to be extra nice.
	2 (8%)
	other
	1 (4%)
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