Kaczyński official fired after linking Tusk's grandfather with Wehrmacht

Tusk said Kaczyński "does not deserve the presidency" after Jacek Kurski, a member of Kaczyński's election office, claimed in an interview with Angora that "serious sources in the Pomerania region say that Tusk's grandfather applied to the Wehrmacht as a volunteer." Tusk called Kurski's revelations a slander and politicians from the Civic Platform presented documents proving that during the war both of Tusk's grandfathers were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. Tusk added that a person who cannot control his own people should not be president. At first Kaczyński refused to contradict Kurski's statement and said that during the election campaign he also was groundlessly attacked on numerous occasions. However, as the political storm worsened, PiS representatives announced that Kurski had been fired from Kaczyński's election office and will face disciplinary proceedings. (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1,4; Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) E.B.