Poland’s Twisted Holocaust Law

Expand A sign reading "Stop!" in German and Polish is seen at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, during the ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2018. © 2018 Reuters A new law in Poland, threatening to jail those who imply the country had a role in the Holocaust, will likely have a wider chilling effect on free expression. The law, signed by Polish President Andrzej Duda, makes it a crime punishable by up to three years imprisonment to claim…

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