On 6 December 1942, the Germans killed over 30 Poles, most of them children, in two nearby villages.
 
														 
														On 6 December 1942, the Germans killed over 30 Poles, most of them children, in two nearby villages.
 
														The shrine is on the official register of monuments, meaning vandalism of it can carry a prison sentence of up to two years.
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														Amid the commemorations, politics was never far from the surface.
 
														Kaczyński says that Poland deserves war reparations not only from Germany, but also from Russia.
 
														Norman Davies
While the Soviets liberated Auschwitz, they were filling another former Nazi camp, Majdanek, with Polish prisoners. 
 
														Sylwia Spurek has been criticised for a Twitter post depicting cattle as Jews in concentration camps.
 
														The Royal Castle is reusing banners advertising exhibitions to make shopping bags and backpacks.
 
														The prime minister also supported President Duda’s decision not to travel to Israel to “listen to Putin’s lies”.
Poland “must apologise to the whole world” for “creating fertile ground for the Holocaust”, said the State Duma speaker.
 
														The growing number of visitors also brings challenges as the former camp increasingly becomes a tourist destination.
 
														Sławomir Dębski
The Russian president’s only version of history is the Soviet one.
 
														Daniel Tilles
Whatever one thinks of the Polish government’s historical policy, Poland must be properly represented.
 
														A spokesman for President Duda sets out “our condition for being present at the ceremony”.
 
														Some in PiS are “conscious allies” in Putin’s “project to disintegrate the EU and Nato”, says Tusk.