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– We do not have a comment; tonight it will not be – Paul Bresson said the FBI on Monday evening (local time on the night of Monday to Tuesday Polish time). Earlier, he said that the director of the FBI, “in one way or another” should have on Monday “to refer to the case.”
Also, the Polish embassy spokesman Raphael Perl confirmed that the facility is still not received a response to a letter of protest, which the Polish Ambassador Richard Schenpf sent to Comey. Schenpf sent him on Friday evening “in connection with the statement inadmissible Director Comey, who in his speech suggested Poles responsibility for the Holocaust” – how informed the embassy.
The Department state: Director Comey intention was certainly not to suggest …
On the other hand spokeswoman Marie Harf State Department daily press briefing on Monday assured that the intention of the director of the FBI was not suggesting that Poland somehow is responsible for the Holocaust. But she avoided answering the question whether Poland will hear an apology.
– The US has always recognized and admired the enormous efforts of countless Poles, Hungarians and other inhabitants of occupied Europe to protect its Jews from Nazi genocide (…). And of course Poles fell a large part of Nazi barbarism – Harf said.
– The intention of the director Comey was certainly not to suggest that Poland was somehow responsible for the Holocaust. We want to make it clear – she added. Repeatedly inquired whether Poland will hear from the US apology for the words Comey, said that “there is nothing more to add.” She could not answer the question of whether the Secretary of State, John Kerry spoke to the head of the Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna on this.
Holocaust Museum: No comment
Commentary refused so far as the Holocaust Museum in Washington, which organized the April 15 celebration of the Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust. That’s when Comey gave his controversial speech, and then reprinted in the newspaper “Washington Post”.
Comey expressed the opinion that the most frightening lesson of the Holocaust is that it shows that people are able to opt out of individual morality and see almost everything, submitting to the authority of the group. “In their opinion, the murderers and their partners from Germany, Polish, Hungarian, and many other places they did not do anything wrong. They convinced themselves to the fact that they did what was right, what they had to do,” – said Comey.
The speech, which he delivered version Comey still available on both sides of the FBI and the Holocaust Museum.
Words criticized FBI chief representatives of the Polish authorities. US Ambassador Stephen Mull in connection with the statement of the Director of the FBI was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Sunday. Polish Foreign Minister Schetyna said on Monday that it still expects US authorities to close the case expression Comey, who sparked outrage in Poland. The Minister has to apologize for the “unfortunate words”.
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