Poland’s prosecutors drop case into Holocaust scholar

Prosecutors in Poland says they have dropped the case into claims by Holocaust scholar Jan Tomasz Gross who said in an article that during World War II Poles killed more Jews than Germans

Prosecutors in southern Poland have dropped a case into claims made by Holocaust scholar Jan Tomasz Gross that Poles killed more Jews than Germans during World War II.

Gross’ claim in a 2015 article upset many and a probe was subsequently launched on whether the historian insulted the Polish nation.

Prosecutors in Katowice said Tuesday that the evidence gathered offered no clear guidance.

The case against Gross, now a retired Princeton University professor, raised questions about the commitment by Poland’s ruling right-wing Law and Justice party to freedom of research and scholarship.