British Lord protests teaching students Poles joined Germans in holocaust
A senior British aristocrat Lord Belhaven and Stenton has presented a letter
of protest to the British Education Secretary David Blunkett against the
teaching in British schools that Poles alongside the Germans and French
participated in the extermination of Jews in World War II. The contentious
issue involves the history curriculum for the General Certificate of
Education (GSCE) examination in history taken by 16-year old British
students. Lord Belhaven, who is married to a Pole is protesting against the
use of textbooks which he says contain the lie that Poles were culprits and
not victims in the holocaust. The most offensive version of this history is
published in Neila DeMarco and Richard Radway's book The Twentieth Century.
(Rzeczpospolita, page A2, Zycie, page 10) S.M.
