Chris Jezewski writes:

There is both an unfortunate ambiguity and remarkable omission in this article: http://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news.cfm?id=22190">http://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news.cfm?id=22190 First sentence: "Seventy years ago today, the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz was liberated. In 2013 reporter Nigel Canham visited the Polish site with a group of sixth form students." A direct link was made between a "Nazi concentration camp" and a "Polish site". This is inaccurate and misleading. This is then compounded by: "The Polish town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz in German) was selected as the site for a concentration camp, Auschwitz 1". (Oswiecim is a historic town in Poland that the Germans called Auschwitz. It is not a direct translation). Auschwitz has a German name because it was a German camp. Germany built the site following the German invasion and brutal German occupation of Poland. The word German is not used in the article. Instead it is implied that it was a "Polish site". If you visited Auschwitz museum you should know that Poles were the second biggest category of victims that were killed and that they outnumber all the other non-Jewish categories added together. Poles were also the first inmates and constituted nearly 40% of the registered prisoners. http://auschwitz.org/en/history/the-number-of-victims/overall-numbers-by-ethnicity-or-category-of-deportee">http://auschwitz.org/en/history/the-number-of-victims/overall-numbers-by-ethnicity-or-category-of-deportee This is also inaccurate: "*It is thought 1.5 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, mostly Jews, and even as the war ended plans were in place to step up the execution rate." http://auschwitz.org/en/history/the-number-of-victims/number-of-deportees-by-ethnicity">http://auschwitz.org/en/history/the-number-of-victims/number-of-deportees-by-ethnicity "An industrial killing machine didn't just appear. It had to be conceived, planned, drafted, built, operated and maintained." You failed to add "by GERMANY" at the end. Why is there such a reluctance to truthfully and factually mention that the Holocaust and Auschwitz were the SOLE responsibility of Germany? Instead it seems "de rigueur" to confuse the issue and suggest Polish complicity whilst ignoring the factually history, German responsibility AND the Polish victims. THE NAZIS WERE GERMAN! Incidentally, one of the Poles executed, Maximilian Kolbe, became a patron saint for journalists. Why did Mid-Devon Advertiser ignore the guidance from Auschwitz Museum AND the Polish Embassy? http://70.auschwitz.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=173&lang=en">http://70.auschwitz.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=173&lang=en http://www.london.mfa.gov.pl/en/news/anniversary_of_the_liberation_of_the_nazi_german_concentration_and_extermination_camp_auschwitz_birkenau">http://www.london.mfa.gov.pl/en/news/anniversary_of_the_liberation_of_the_nazi_german_concentration_and_extermination_camp_auschwitz_birkenau_ Please correct the article. Just needs TWO WORDS. "Seventy years ago today, the GERMAN Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz* was liberated. In 2013 reporter Nigel Canham visited the Polish MUSEUM site with a group of sixth form students." OR, "Seventy years ago today, the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in GERMAN OCCUPIED POLAND was liberated. In 2013 reporter Nigel Canham visited the Polish MUSEUM site with a group of sixth form students."