Germany is waging a hybrid war against Poland in the sphere of consciousness, stated PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński at a meeting in Bydgoszcz. He listed numerous actions aimed, among other things, at falsifying history. He emphasized that part of this operation also includes the activities of some Polish politicians.
According to Kaczyński, a war has been launched against Poland from Germany, which he described as a hybrid. He said it was “an operation aimed at breaking down our historical consciousness, our identity.” He indicated that there are drastic examples of this. Among them, he mentioned the exhibition “Our Boys” about residents of Pomerania serving in the Third Reich’s army, presented at the Gdańsk Museum.
He claimed that this exhibition proves that “our view of World War II, of relations with Germany, is to be changed, at least in some regions of Poland, particularly those which until 1945 were part of Germany or close to the German border.”
He added that “there are more such acts.” “They also occur when it comes to the actions of our politicians,” he stressed. He recalled a statement by Education Minister Barbara Nowacka, who said that it was Poles who built concentration camps. “Well, what more can one say?,” he commented.
He also recalled the dismissal of Hanna Radziejowska, director of the Berlin branch of the Pilecki Institute, and her replacement by Joanna Kliszek. “Ms. Kliszek, as she herself claims, belongs to humanity in general. ‘My belonging is to humanity,’ meaning she does not belong to the Polish nation. She is closely tied to that milieu whose central figure remains Adam Michnik. As for their attachment to Poland and patriotism, well, you probably know yourselves what the ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’ has achieved in this regard,” he said.
“And yet this was supposed to be, and indeed was, a center that fought to show the truth about what happened in Poland between 1939 and 1945, because Germany has been doing everything for decades to erase that truth, to relativize it somehow, to share, as Minister Nowacka is precisely suggesting, the responsibility for those monstrous crimes,”
Kaczyński stated.
He also recalled the campaign concerning the restitution of German works of art allegedly seized by Poles. “Ladies and gentlemen, keep one thing in mind: this is not just about those works of art. It is not only about the disgracefulness of such demands; they did not pay reparations, they did not punish the criminals, and they are essentially a post-Nazi state. Why do we say that Poland is post-communist? Because communists were not held accountable, damages were not redressed. And what happened in Germany? Exactly the same,” he declared.
“Remember, Germany was an imperialist state, is an imperialist state, and will continue to be one, and that is why we must be very vigilant,”
he concluded.