MOSCOW (Sputnik) — In an op-ed published by the Washington Post last week, Comey suggested that Poland shared responsibility for the Holocaust.
"One has to react as quickly as one can, because the case is outrageous. We look forward to this matter being ended today, in Washington. There must be a decision and a very clear signal to end this issue, and an apology for these unfortunate words,” Poland’s Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna said, as quoted by Polish news website Onet.pl.
Comey’s statement also sparked a strong reaction from Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz, who deemed it “unacceptable.”
“To those are unable to present the historical truth, I wish to say today that Poland was not the perpetrator, but the victim of World War II,” Kopacz told reporters Monday.
Hours after the publication of Comey’s opinion piece Thursday last week, Poland’s ambassador to the United States sent him a letter of protest, accusing the FBI chief of falsifying history.
On Sunday, the United States’ ambassador in Warsaw was summoned to Poland’s foreign ministry over the issue.
