March 6-th,1999

Re: Patrick Graham article "Croatia confronts wartime past"
appeared in National Post on page A10 on March 4 th,1999.


Dear Editor,

It is not fair to refer to the "concentration camps in Poland and Germany" (and in Croatia) without mentioning the paramount difference, as you did in above article.
During the Second World War, in Germany, the Nazi government set up and run a number of concentration camp, which were, in fact, camps of extermination.
In Croatia, the Jasenovac camp was set up and run by the Croatian "Ustashe regime, a Nazi puppet government that ruled Croatia during the 1940s."
In Poland the situation was completely different. During World War II Poland was under occupation, run by the Germans. There never existed a Polish authority, similar to Ustashe government, which would have been able to run any concentration camp. On the territory of Poland occupied by them, the Germans did, indeed, set up and run some concentration camps.
This is the essential difference and you should explain it to you readers.

Sincerely
Mr.Leszek SOLEK
641, Queen Blvd.
St.-Lambert (Quebec) J4R 1J6
tel.(450) 672-5786 fax.(450) 923-2632


To the Editor
National Post


Dear Sir,

It is not fair to refer to the "concentration camps in Poland and Germany" (and in Croatia) without mentioning the paramount difference, as you did in above article.

During the Second World War, in Germany, the Nazi government set up and run a number of concentration camp, which were, in fact, camps of extermination.

In Croatia, the Jasenovac camp was set up and run by the Croatian "Ustashe regime, a Nazi puppet government that ruled Croatia during the 1940s." In Poland the situation was completely different. During World War II Poland was under occupation, run by the Germans. There never existed a Polish authority, similar to Ustashe government, which would have been able to run any concentration camp.

On the territory of Poland occupied by Germans did, they indeed, set up and run concentration camps, which in fact, should be properly named as German's or Nazi's or Hitler's concentration camps but never ever "the Polish....camps".

Those so called "Polish concentration camps" do exist only in spoken, printed, and copied propaganda by certain lobbying groups, and had happened to be just pure lies.

This is the essential difference and you should explain it to you readers I do hope that you will.

Sincerely

Wilhelm Glowacki
Vancouver, B.C. Canada
wglowa@direct.ca

and:

Konrad Lepecki
Detroit, MI, USA

Andrzej Walasek
Houston, TX USA

Alexander J.Matejko
University of Alberta
Canada

Grzegorz Gigol,
Warsaw, Poland

Slawomir Janukowicz
Jelenia Gora,Poland

Krzysztof Pyrkosz
Czestochowa, POLAND


Dr. Krzysztof Borowiak
Poznan, Poland

Dr. Mieczyslaw Gutowski, Associate Professor.
Lake Superior State University
School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences.
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan 49783, USA.

Dana I. Alvi
Polish-American Public Relations Committee
Santa Monica, CA USA

Pawel Talarczyk
Poznan,Poland

Zbigniew Koziol
Toronto, Canada

Lukasz Stawicki
Torun, Poland

Jan Grylicki
Gliwice, Poland

Waldemar Skiers
Slupsk, Poland

Witold Raczunas
Gdansk, Poland

Radoslaw Ostrzycki
Skierniewice, Poland

Waldemar Kuzler
Regensburg, Germany

Tomasz Keller
Warsaw, Poland

Boguslaw Zbijewski,
Zloty Stok, Poland

Krystyna Pedzialek
Etobicoke, Canada

Richard Koziol
Pittsburgh, PA USA

Wlodzimierz K.Wrobel
USA

Henryk Olbrycht,
New York, USA

Hon.Ryszard Zajac,(former MP)
Sosnowiec, Poland

Lech Maziakowski
Reisterstown, MD USA

Grzegorz Swiderski,
Warsaw, Poland

Waldemar Dworakowski
Warsaw, Poland

Tadeusz Mroz
Poland

Pawel Jozwik
Surrey, BC.
Canada

Miroslaw J Wiechowski
Solna, Sweden

Dariusz Jozefowicz,
Slupsk, Poland

Slawomir Janukowicz
Jelenia Gora, Poland

Adam Kulewski
Pruszkow, Poland

Richard Majchrzak
Canberra AUSTRALIA