Robert Bąkiewicz, leader of the Border Defense Movement, commented on the scandalous “commemoration” of Polish victims of World War II in Berlin during an interview on Republika TV. He pointed out that Germany deliberately avoids responsibility for its crimes and does not want to remind people of the dramatic events of 1939–1945.
Bąkiewicz on the wreath and the Germans in “shorts”
During the interview, Bąkiewicz sharply criticized the German authorities:
— First of all, this monument, this rock, this boulder that weighs 30 tons — is that supposed to be compensation for 6 million murdered, for Warsaw completely destroyed, for 200,000 kidnapped, stolen Polish children taken from their mothers and fathers? For all these atrocities the Germans put down a field stone for us. I think in Podlasie you could buy one like that for a bottle of vodka. That’s all there is to say about the compensation and the honors that the Germans are supposedly paying us — he said.
Bąkiewicz recalled that activists from the Border Defense Movement made an attempt today to symbolically commemorate the Polish victims of World War II in Berlin:
— This morning, our colleagues went there to lay a wreath, and by that stone — that cynical spit in our face — to place a cross, say a short prayer, and sing Rota. As we hear, the Germans have already dismantled and removed that cross. In their view, it cannot be the case that during World War II, Christians were murdered, Poles were murdered, on Polish soil — he stressed.
The leader of the Border Defense Movement also referred to the German government’s “gesture” with the wreath:
— As for the man who brought that wreath from the Federal Republic of Germany — some gardener or worker in shorts, with construction gloves — that is simply cynical, truly very cynical, a calculated spit in our face — Bąkiewicz assessed.