If found guilty of denying Nazi crimes, he could face up to three years in prison.
If found guilty of denying Nazi crimes, he could face up to three years in prison.
He will also be charged over various antisemitic, anti-Ukrainian and anti-LGBT incidents during last year’s presidential election campaign.
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Denying Nazi crimes is punishable by up to three years in prison in Poland.
The auction was cancelled after international criticism and intervention by Poland’s government.
“It is deeply troubling that the statement commemorating the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz failed to mention the Polish victims of the camp.”
“To this day, the German state has not paid Poland reparations for the evils of WWII,” declared Karol Nawrocki.
Wojciech Konończuk
Poland has paid more for the maintenance of former camps than Germany has ever given to Polish WWII victims.
Stanisław Zalewski, a former member of the Polish underground resistance who turned 100 this year, has fought a long-running legal battle.
The Auschwitz Museum was among the wide range of Polish officials and institutions to criticise Yad Vashem’s post.
Grzegorz Braun claimed that the Polish government is “implementing directives presented…by various Jewish organisations”.
Grzegorz Braun called the gas chambers at Auschwitz “fake”.
Prosecutors have launched an investigation into whether Grzegorz Braun violated the law against denying Nazi crimes.
“The aim is to shed light on the history of one of the lesser-known victim groups of Auschwitz,” says the museum.
“Memory must be protected, not ridiculed,” wrote the museum.