Poland's law censoring statements that criticize "the Polish nation" for participation in the holocaust spurred present-day antisemitism in Poland, as well as more of the false, exaggerated criticisms of Poles during World War II that the law aimed to stop.

Occupied Poland was deadly hell, so we should not be surprised that some Poles responded with great heroism and others with great depravity. Jan Karsi's book, Story of a Secret State, presents the heroism. In this article we see Karski's presentation of the depravity. Alas, anti-Semitism provided an easy path to depravity.

Most nations with a long history have crimes in that history. The US has crimes at least as big as Poland's. To deny the crimes is self-delusion. Poles, like Americans, must recognize them and work to prevent future crimes.