Poland’s Prime Minister appears to have backed down over controversial new Holocaust legislation by claiming he plans to amend the law that has angered Israel and America.
The planned new bill would have seen anyone who suggested Poland was responsible for Nazi crimes facing a prison term.
Poland was attacked and occupied by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Millions of its citizens were killed, including three million Jews – about half of those who perished in the Holocaust.
The country has long objected to the use of phrases like "Polish death camps", which suggest the Polish state in some way shared responsibility for the Holocaust.
