Poland has demanded that conservative commentator Tucker Carlson apologize for his claims about Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland and criticism of the United Kingdom's decision to enter World War II. Bogdan Klich, charge d'affaires at the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C., accused Carlson of being "an apologist for Adolf Hitler" after the conservative commentator questioned the U.K.'s decision to fight Nazi Germany. Newsweek reached out to the Tucker Carlson Network for comment.
During a podcast conversation with former British Cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Carlson said that Hitler had grievances over territory transferred to Poland following World War I and questioned British involvement in World War II. Carlson’s claim that Hitler said 15 percent of Poland was once Germany and was given to Warsaw at the Treaty of Versailles was a "colossal insult" to victims, including American servicemen killed or wounded in the war, said Klich. The U.K. and France accepted in 1938 Germany's annexation of predominantly German-speaking Sudetenland in return for Hitler's pledge to resolve disputes peacefully.
By March 1939, German forces had invaded Czechoslovakia. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, after renouncing a non-aggression agreement with Warsaw made five years earlier. Klich said in his letter that the Allied Forces’ declaration of war against Nazi Germany “was not merely a political obligation” but necessary given Hitler was “driven by the idea of conquering the world.
And the world would be much worse off if the Nazis had won WWII. This is not complicated." The Berlin-based Polish Institute of Culture and Research said in a statement on X that "offering [an] apologia for Hitler and Nazi Germany normalizes the use of historical grievances to justify contemporary aggression. It undermines human rights and the principles underpinning a rules-based international order." Contact Newsweek editors on this story: Ben Kelly and Sam Wilson.
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