Duda resented the controversial exhibition in Gdańsk. There's a Ministry reaction

Andrzej Duda reacted with outrage to the exhibition "Our Boys" at the Gdańsk Museum. "He who relativizes crimes, he disarms the conscience of the nation," the president stated. The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has already referred to the critical voices of the exhibition.


"The presentation of 3rd Reich soldiers as 'ours' is not only a historical lie, it is simply a moral provocation, even if photographs of young men in Hitler's army uniforms depict forced incarnates into the German army of Poles" - wrote Andrzej Duda.

"They blur the work of the perpetrators"

As he added, Poles, as a nation, were victims of German business and German terror, not its perpetrators or participants. "Gdansk – the place where planet War II began – cannot be a scene for narratives that blur the work of perpetrators," he said.

In his opinion, specified actions | undermine the foundations of our identity and accept respect for the victims". "As president of the Republic, I powerfully argue this. Those who relativize crimes, they disarm the conscience of the nation," he added.



"Our Boys" Exhibition. There's a Ministry reaction.

All voices criticizing the exhibition in Gdańsk were powerfully addressed by the Ministry of Culture, which published a peculiar statement. According to the ministry, "the exhibition restores the memory of Poles whose subjectivity has been taken with violence, and which has been forgotten for decades".

"The exhibition brings the destiny of tens of thousands of Poles, forced into the Wehrmacht. A immense part of them deserted, later feeding ranks of Polish Armed Forces in the West. The mission of institutions specified as museums is to present the past in a reliable and comprehensive way, frequently on subjects hard and so far silent," we read.

It was further pointed out that allegations of "converting stories that are pushed by part of the political scene are not only harmful – undermine assurance in institutions whose fundamental task is to safeguard historical truth".

"Mause institutions follow investigation ethos, based on verification of sources, analysis of facts and presentation of various perspectives. The past should be and is told by Polish cultural institutions in a reliable way, not 1 in which convenient political narratives are used" – the representatives of the ministry added.