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Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian involved in Poland’s recent
efforts to revise Holocaust history to minimize the role of local collaborators, has been elected president of Poland.
Nawrocki eked out a narrow victory over Rafal Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s liberal-centrist mayor, in a runoff election on Sunday. His election
marks a return to power for the Law and Justice Party, which led
Poland from 2015 until 2023 and endorsed Nawrocki, who was relatively
unknown before entering the race late last year. It will stymie
efforts by the country’s centrist prime minister to make reforms.
The election carried steep stakes for how Poland memorializes the
Holocaust, when 3 million Polish Jews were murdered in a Nazi campaign supported by Polish collaborators.
Law and Justice promoted historical narratives about Polish victimhood
and resistance to the Nazis, while delegitimizing research on Polish antisemitism or Poles who killed Jews. In 2018, the country passed a
law that outlawed accusing Poland or the Polish people of complicity
in Nazi crimes. Although the infraction was downgraded from a crime
punishable with three years in prison to a civil offense, critics say
it had a chilling effect on historical research.
https://www.jta.org/2025/06/03/global/karol-nawrocki-right-wing-holocaust-revisionist-historian-elected-polish-president
Looks like the Polaks got it right this time.
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