Victimhood, Polish Identity and #GermanDeathCamps
(Disclaimer- This post is not about the history of the Holocaust, but the relationship between modern Polish identity and victimhood. If you would like to read about the Holocaust then plenty of smarter people than me have provided you with a wealth of literature) Recently I was binge watching cat videos on YouTube when a particularly advert caught my attention. Usually I do my best to ignore YouTube ads, but this one stood out. Probably because, in contrast to the usual array of adverts for music and bullshit I get targeted with, this one was about the Holocaust. Today, we are still on the side of truth video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrkQ20SjHoU If you haven’t seen the Today, we are still on the side of truth video I’ll quickly summarise. Created by The Institute of National Remembrance, a Polish government institution, the video provides a montage of the Holocaust. However, it invites us to see the Holocaust as not a genocide against just the Jews, but rather ‘Jew