The Polish government said it would seek legislation to preserve former Nazi death camps located on its territory. The legislation, to be presented to Parliament by the end of the year would give the camps a special “memorial” status and set up management councils, according to a government spokesman. The bill is at least partly directed at protecting Auschwitz from a crusade by fundamentalist Polish Catholics, who recently erected more than 150 crosses in defiance of Jewish demands that no religious symbols be displayed there.
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