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"Polish death camp" controversy, an Uncommon card
In historical discussions of World War II, "Polish death camp" and "Polish concentration camp" are ambiguous expressions which, while accurately describing the location of the camps in Poland, are misconstruable as indicating that these Nazi concentration and extermination camps, established by Nazi Germany in…
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 162
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 17,000
Power 162 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Some Poles, including politicians, have viewed use of the expressions "Polish death camp" and "Polish concentration camp", by careless speakers, as having been deliberately intended to disinform.
- Poland's subsequent 2018 Amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance prompted objections within and outside Poland.
- The law criminalized public statements ascribing, to the Polish nation, responsibility in Holocaust-related crimes, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, or war crimes, or which "grossly reduce the responsibility of the actual perpetrators".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The "Polish death camp" controversy article was read about 17,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, "Polish death camp" controversy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : WW2-Holocaust-Europe-2007Borders.png : User:Dna-Dennis derivative work: Emdee ( talk ), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
