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Poland protests Irish broadcaster's "Polish concentration camp" misnomer

Located 36 kilometres from Gdańsk, the Stutthof camp was run by the German SS from September 2, 1939 to May 9, 1945. Over 100,000 people were incarcerated in the camp, of whom an estimated 65,000 perished. Adam Warżawa/PAP

Poland's ambassador to Ireland has protested against Irish national broadcaster RTE's use of the term "Polish concentration camp” in a feature about the WWII Nazi-German Stutthof death camp, which was located in northern Poland.

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