The Polish Embassy in Washington reprimanded MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell for her offensive comments on a “Polish and Nazi Regime.”
The MSNBC foreign affairs correspondent was reporting from the Polish capital on Wednesday where she interviewed Vice President Mike Pence at the Middle East conference in Warsaw.
Andrea Mitchell @MSNBC; this statement is completely false.
The Jews rose up only against the Nazi German occupier who had been occupying Warsaw, Poland since '39 and terrorising Jews and Poles.
The undersupplied Polish resistance actually provided some weapons and assistance. pic.twitter.com/AKDdYeEZfp
— Stefan Tompson (@StefanTompson) February 13, 2019
Mitchell reported that Pence and his wife’s visit to Poland included a stop at the site of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising where, she said, Polish Jews were fighting “for a month against the Polish and Nazi regime.”
MSNBC @mitchellreports may have just broken Poland’s Holocaust Law for blaming Nazi crimes on Poland while on air in Warsaw
Developing…
— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) February 13, 2019
In a tweet with the hashtag #WordsMatter, the US Polish Embassy schooled Mitchell on the facts.
Thank you @mitchellreports @MSNBC for reporting in Warsaw. However, the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a heroic act against the German Nazis who established the ghetto & carried out the #Holocaust. During WWII Poland was attacked &occupied by the German Nazi regime. #WordsMatter
— Embassy of Poland US (@PolishEmbassyUS) February 13, 2019
The Uprising was the largest single revolt by Jews during WWII and saw about 13,000 of them slaughtered. Mitchell’s remarks sparked questions about whether she violated Poland’s Holocaust law, which initially made it a criminal offense to accuse the nation of complicity in Nazi war crimes.
@mitchellreports
.@MSNBC
President of the #IPN has demanded the removal of Andrea Mitchell’s message from public space in the name of historical truth and journalistic accuracy.https://t.co/A3H9xeseEG
FYI
.@PolishEmbassyUS
.@USEmbassyWarsaw— Institute of National Remembrance (@ipngovpl_eng) February 14, 2019
SCOOP: Polish officials are reviewing MSNBC Andrea Mitchell’s comments in Warsaw about a “Polish and Nazi Regime” in 1943 to determine if she broke the new law against blaming Poland for Nazi war crimes – @OANN
— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) February 13, 2019
The Warsaw-based Central Europe office of the American Jewish Committee slammed Mitchel for her egregious comments, saying “journalists should do their homework” in a tweet.
It is beyond the pale to assert Jews in the #WarsawGhetto fought “against Polish & Nazi regimes.” This is basics of history: they rose up against the German oppressor. Journalists should do their homework before speaking to millions.@mitchellreports https://t.co/qCvWfw9Zyx
— AJC Central Europe (@AJC_CE) February 14, 2019
The Forum of Polish Jews decried the comments as an “absolute scandal!”
Andrea Mitchell z NBC/MSNBC, powiedziała w korespondencji z Warszawy, że powstanie w getcie warszawskim było walką “przeciwko POLSKIEMU i NAZISTOWSKIEMU reżimowi”. Cóż można powiedzieć na taką gigantyczną, bezwstydną ignorancję?! To absolutny SKANDAL! https://t.co/VrKTeeG20E
— Forum Zydow Polskich (@ForumFZP) February 14, 2019
“Andrea Mitchell of NBC/MSNBC, in a report from Warsaw, has said that the Warsaw ghetto uprising was fought against ‘the Polish and Nazi regime.’ What can one say about such a gigantic, shameless instance of ignorance?! This is an absolute scandal!” the group tweeted.
MSNBC @mitchellreports just falsely stated that the Warsaw Uprising was against “The Polish Nazi Regime”
This is grossly offensive to all Poles who lost their families under the brutal Nazi occupation
Disgrace pic.twitter.com/YM65GPZVjv
— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) February 13, 2019
Mitchell was torched on social media as demands poured in for an apology or even her resignation.
Uhm, @mitchellreports thinks the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of Polish Jews was against “the Polish and Nazi regime.” Uhm, no @msnbc. It was against the German Army that occupied Poland for 6 years while carrying out the #Holocaust. pic.twitter.com/X8NRyAUJp6
— Alex Storozynski (@AlexStorozynski) February 13, 2019
Dear @mitchellreports, more than apologies are needed. There was no such thing as “Polish and Nazi regime”. This statement is false and highly offensive. Poland was occupied by German Nazis. Both Poles and Jews fought against Nazis during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. @MSNBC https://t.co/hO67xHhRlY
— Zuzanna Falzmann (@zuzannafalzmann) February 13, 2019
I’m all for free speech, but given how much the Poles suffered under Nazi tyranny what kind of moron except for
Andrea Mitchell would blame them for Nazi atrocities? Poland wasn’t Vichy France.— Jonathan Gelling (@j_gelling) February 14, 2019
. @MSNBC @mitchellreports
Your Polish viewers demand an apology.#PrzeprościePolaków ?? pic.twitter.com/7rzHuLhyVB— Mat Jarek ??? (@7Jarek) February 14, 2019
Poles were fighting against German nazis from the first to the last day of the WW2 in Europe. That bloody struggle led to enormous losses. For us @mitchellreports’s words are something more than a shameful mistake. We consider it as an insult to our forefathers’ matryrdom.
— Jakub Wiech (@jakubwiech) February 14, 2019
It’s really sad to hear @mitchellreports & @MSNBC delivering historically false information about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising from the very heart of Warsaw. The heroic Jews in 1943 were fighting against the German forces aiming at liquidating the ghetto: https://t.co/We5ZRugYaH https://t.co/rO7Jxl98np
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) February 14, 2019
This is not the first time chief foreign affairs correspondent for @msnbc, Andrea Mitchell [@mitchellreports] made offensive & inaccurate statements. She did the same on January 22, 2018.
Swift & effective legal action must be taken against Ms Mitchell.https://t.co/wsCLINooSn
— Eugene J. Markow (@ejmarkow) February 14, 2019
An apology is not enough! She needs to be fired. Blaming the Poles who lived under brutal German occupation for crimes committed by Germans is historical revisionism of the worst kind. There was no Poland between 1939 and 1945. The place was run by German thugs.
— TVarga (@VargaTvarga) February 14, 2019
“Polish Nazi? … omg… To put those two words together is an abomination.. How many Poles fled their homeland to get to Great Britain so they could be part of the military to fight the Nazis since Hitler had destroyed theirs..? That is disgusting..
— Ann Marie (@Political_QRM) February 13, 2019
I knew she would put a negative spin on her conversation with the Vice President, but I had NO idea it would be this bad.
— Dee Jagge (@JaggeGm) February 14, 2019
Hey, @mitchellreports who was your history teacher? I thought that US journalists who travel wth the VP should have some basic knowledge about the country which they visit.
In 1943 Polish Jews stood up against the German Nazi terror in the ghetto https://t.co/bzey2AqQOn
— Karol Darmoros (@KarolDarmoros) February 14, 2019
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