Merkel said in her weekly podcast today that the onus on Germany from the Holocaust is something every government will acknowledge and have to address.
The Polish law allows prison terms of up to three years for statements attributing Nazi crimes in German-occupied Poland to the Polish nation.
It has caused a diplomatic dispute with Israel, which fears it will enable Poland to whitewash the role of Poles who killed or denounced Jews during the occupation.
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