President Andrzej Duda criticises the exhibition 'Our Boys' at the Museum of Gdańsk, recognizing it as a historical and moral provocation.
Ministry of Culture defends the exhibition, highlighting its function in reminding Poles of the destiny of forced-involved Poles.
There is simply a dispute over how to present hard historical themes and work for the communicative of planet War II.
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‘There is no approval to relativize history! I am outraged to hear that exhibition ’Our Boys’ at the Museum of Gdańsk“ The president wrote on Monday.
According to the head of state, “presenting soldiers III The Reich as 'our' is not only historical falsehood is moral provocation, even if the photographs of young men in Hitler's army uniforms depict forced incarnation into the German army of Poles".
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As he stressed, "Poles, as a nation, were victimsand 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 the perpetrators“ Duda added.
‘Such actions undermine the foundations of our identity And they respect the victims. As president of the Republic, I powerfully argue this. Those who relativize crimes, they disarm the conscience of the nation," the president summarized.
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He besides referred to this exhibition himself Ministry of Culturewho appealed online about Ending “disinformation in social media‘.
“Our Boys Exhibition presented by the Museum of Gdańsk restores the memory of Poles whose subjectivity has been taken by violence..and 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 the ranks of the Polish Armed Forces in the West" - explained the entry on X.
“ The mission of institutions specified as museums is reliable and comprehensive presentation of history, frequently on hard and so far silent topics".
‘Accusations of misconceptions of stories that push through part of the political scene are not only harmful “They undermine trust in institutions whose fundamental task is to safeguard historical truth,” added the post.
“Museum institutions guide 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 communicative is used", the ministry concluded.
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