A court in Poland on Monday dismisses a case brought by a Holocaust survivor who was held at Auschwitz against a German broadcaster who described Nazi camps as “Polish.”
In summer 2013, Germany’s ZDF channel referred to “Polish camps of Auschwitz and Majdanek” during a promotional trailer for a documentary about the liberation of the Nazi-era camps.
The court in Krakow accepts that Karol Tendera, 93, had his “rights violated” by the wording but adds that the German broadcaster had “effectively” explained its behavior in two letters it sent to Tendera and a statement posted on its website.
Tendera’s lawyers have said that he will appeal against the decision.
“We consider that the explanation does not satisfy Mr Karol Tendera,” one of his lawyers tells the PAP news agency.
He criticized the court for not banning the German channel from using the wording in future and for not ordering it to pay damages to an organization known for defending Polish identity.
In 2009 Poland protested over foreign media’s use of the term “Polish camp” for the Sobibor death camp that was also established by Nazi Germany in Poland during World War II.
— AFP
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