phylo...
So let me get this straight, Chili - you're saying there have never been any "Polish Camps" - labour/concentration/interment camps?
Of course, there has been Polish camps. How did you get the impression that I mean the opposite? (Is it my poor english? No seriously)
I have mentioned Bereza Kartuska, established in 1934 after the assasination of the Polish minister of interior affairs, Bronislaw Pirecki, in the summer earlier that year. There had also been several internment camps for Russian POWs 1920-1922.
The Polish communist authorities established several internment camps during 1945 for Germans before their expulsion and for Ukrainians during the Wisla action in 1947. The camp in Zgoda, operating from february 1945 to october 1945, was run by Salomon Morel, a Polish Jew who the Polish government have tried to get extradicted from Israel and punished for his crimes in the camp against German and Polish prisoners. Israel has refused.
But, this is not how the term Polish camps have been used. What we are discussing is the wrong usage of the term "Polish death camp" instead of Nazi German camp. Between 1939-1945 there were no "Polish camps" in German-occupied Poland.
Chili