Video: Polish court ordered the German TV channel to apologize for the series that showed anti-Semitic Poles
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The District Court of Krakow, Poland, issued a verdict in a case that had dragged on for several years, meaning a lawsuit against the TV channel CDF. This is a German channel that created a television series called Our Mothers, Our Fathers. The reason for the lawsuit was that in this series the Home Army was presented in an ugly light, it was shown that it was involved in the death of a huge number of Jews, while the territory of the Polish state was occupied by German troops.
A Home Army veteran who was a participant in the Warsaw Uprising and a prisoner of a concentration camp in Auschwitz decided to file a lawsuit against the television channel. In this lawsuit, he accused the German television crew of violating personal rights. He noted that the creation of such a series violates human rights to dignity, pride and national identity.
This lawsuit was filed in 2016 and proceedings have dragged on since that time. According to the decision of the Krakow court, the plaintiff must receive an amount of 20 thousand zlotys as compensation for moral damage, which is approximately 5, 4 thousand dollars. The payment must be made by the Polish TV people who allowed the show of such a series, as well as by the German channel. They also have to apologize to the plaintiff.
The series was shown in three parts in the summer of 2013 by Polish Television. Immediately after its release, numerous controversies erupted in Germany and Poland. The Poles did not like the fact that in this story they decided to show the German troops practically innocent of the war and its consequences, but the Poles, on the contrary, are shown here as anti-Semites.
In the spring of 2013, on the cover of one of the Polish magazines, they decided to portray Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, as a prisoner of a concentration camp, thereby responding to the TV show of the series Our Mothers, Our Fathers. At the same time, Jerzy Marganzi, a Polish diplomat who was then in Germany, drew up a letter in which he noted that the German television channel insulted the fighters of the Polish resistance by creating such a story.
The Warsaw prosecutor's office then refused to investigate the fact that the series was shown on Polish television. Representatives of this very television noted that by showing this story, they gave viewers the right to independently evaluate the work of cinematographs, and not listen to representatives of the media or politicians.
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