Polish "Slurs"

From the BBC:
"Polish jail terms for Nazi camp slurs"

Poland's conservative government says anyone who uses language that implies Polish responsibility for Nazi German atrocities will face jail or a fine. The government has agreed on a new law to criminalise "insulting and slandering the good name of Poland".  The ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) has a clear majority in parliament.  Phrases like "Polish concentration camps" will be punishable by up to three years in jail. Millions died in Nazi German camps on Polish soil.  Under the new law it will be illegal to suggest "publicly and contrary to the facts" that Poles participated in, or bore any responsibility for, the crimes of the Third Reich, a Polish Justice Ministry statement said. Millions of people, mostly Jews, from across Europe were killed in six German-run extermination camps in occupied Poland. Further Holocaust atrocities were committed in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos in Poland.  The country was occupied by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945. The murders wiped out 90% of Poland's pre-war Jewish population. The ministry statement said the new law "will effectively combat the lies detrimental to the good image and good name of Poland, reproduced mainly by foreign media".  There were, however, some Polish atrocities against Jews and other civilians during and after the war. In 1941, Polish villagers in Jedwabne, perhaps at the instigation of the Nazis, rounded up more than 300 of their Jewish neighbours and burned them alive in a barn. And 42 people, most of them survivors of the Holocaust, were murdered in 1946 in Kielce, 150km (93 miles) south of Warsaw.

^ I can understand Poland not wanting to be labelled with starting or running the Holocaust. The concentration and death camps inside Poland were set-up and run by the Germans. I do, however, think it a little extreme to send people to jail for implying that the Poles ran the camps. I can agree with a fine. I have been doing my family tree for years and it goes back to 755 AD and I have Polish  ancestry in my lineage. With that said I also know that there was Anti-Semitism in Poland before World War 2, during World War 2 and during Communist control. The Poles themselves created the Ghetto bench and quota systems before the Germans occupied their country. During the war, as the article states, Poles did massacre Jews. After the war, Poles again did massacre Jewish survivors and the Communist authorities kept an anti-Jewish stance for years. While the camps were not owned or operated by the Poles that doesn't mean Polish-Jewish relations were good (before, during or after World War 2.) I know that many Poles did risk their life to help Jews during the German occupation, but little was done to help the Jews with the Soviets or Communists afterwards. ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/37093943