Polish move to strip Holocaust expert of award sparks protests. Princeton University professor Jan Tomasz Gross faces losing Order of Merit over comments Polish villagers were complicit in massacre of Jews THE GUARDIAN.COM|BY ALEX DUVAL SMITH
It is All to Easy to deny Responsibility
Americans. Look at how easily the right has turned the history of slavery into something in the past. The GOP meme is “get over it!”The same convenient 
distortion of memory afflicts today’s Europeans, Americans, Turks and Arabs .. all of whom, all of us, want to deny OUR historic complicity in the colonialism that underlies the plight of the Syrian people today.Poland’s behavior is much like that of my brother Hugh who wants to allow my Dad’s pictures to rot. Hugh does not see himself as complicit, after all what has he done that is wrong? The right wing government of Poland is even trying to destroy the heroic heritage of Lech Walesa. If Poland can forget Walesa, how much easier is it for the grandchildren and great grandchildren of my father to forget his heroism in liberating Buchenwald?