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How Many Poles Does It Take?

Charles Oliver | 10.29.2015 6:00 AM


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Polish prosecutors have launched a criminal libel investigation of Princeton University historian Jan T. Gross after he wrote that Poles killed more Jews than they did Germans in World War II. Those convicted of libel in Poland face up to three years in prison.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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