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spindrift in reply to @|³|MA3K

Moorhouse points in particular to Thames TV’s 1970s documentary The
World at War, which, throughout 26 hour-long episodes, did not feature
one interview with a Pole.

“It’s absurd: the producers were willing to fly to Moscow to interview
[Soviet General Georgy] Zhukov or to Heidelberg to meet [Hitler’s ally
Albert] Speer, but they didn’t get the train up to Edinburgh to speak
to Polish General [Stanisław] Maczek, who settled in Britain after
liberating Belgium and the Netherlands.”

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/oct/20/world-on-fire-bbc-war-drama-polish-londoners-epic-series-relcima-their-past

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Oliver Schick in reply to @spindrift

relcima

I know it's only in the URL, but even by the Grauniad's standards this is bad.

On a more substantive point, I haven't seen 'The World at War' and didn't realise that there was this omission. I was personally very surprised when soon after the referendum there were hate crimes committed against Poles, e.g. the murder of Arkadiusz Jóźwik in Harlow or the attack on the Polish community centre in Hammersmith. Both Poles who came to the UK during wartime and those who came in the 00s clearly made a great contribution, as immigrants will, so perhaps the sort of disregard that is manifested in the documentary is a historical debt to British Poles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Arkadiusz_J%C3%B3%C5%BAwik

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/27/brexit-polish-centre-london-reeling-after-graffiti-attack

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