Polish authorities removed a stone monument that for decades blamed the Nazis for an infamous World War II massacre of Jews. On July 10, 1941, some 1,600 Jews of the town of Jedwabne were herded into a barn that was then set alight – not by the Nazis but by the town’s Poles, according to a recent book on the subject. With the 60th anniversary of the atrocity approaching, there has been much talk in Poland about Poles coming to terms with their own Holocaust- related crimes.
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