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JTA: Karol Nawrocki, right-wing Holocaust revisionist historian, elected Polish president

June 3, 2025/9 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

Karol Nawrocki, right-wing Holocaust revisionist historian, elected Polish president

Nowrocki has promised to end the tradition of lighting Hanukkah candles in the presidential palace.

Karol Nawrocki speaks to supporters following the Polish presidential runoff election, June 1 in Warsaw. (Marek Antoni Iwaczuk/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian involved in Poland’s recent efforts to revise Holocaust history to minimize the role of local collaborators, has been elected president of Poland.

Nawrocki eked out a narrow victory over Rafał Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s liberal-centrist mayor, in a runoff election on Sunday. His election marks a return to power for the Law and Justice Party, which led Poland from 2015 until 2023 and endorsed Nawrocki, who was relatively unknown before entering the race late last year. It will stymie efforts by the country’s centrist prime minister to make reforms.

The election carried steep stakes for how Poland memorializes the Holocaust, when 3 million Polish Jews were murdered in a Nazi campaign supported by Polish collaborators.

Law and Justice promoted historical narratives about Polish victimhood and resistance to the Nazis, while delegitimizing research on Polish antisemitism or Poles who killed Jews. In 2018, the country passed a law that outlawed accusing Poland or the Polish people of complicity in Nazi crimes. Although the infraction was downgraded from a crime punishable with three years in prison to a civil offense, critics say it had a chilling effect on historical research.

Nawrocki heads the Institute of National Remembrance, which gained a reputation for advancing nationalist narratives about the Holocaust under the Law and Justice government. He centered that version of history in his campaign.

As Nawrocki rose in the polls and forced a runoff, he curried the support of backers of the fourth-place finisher in the general election, Grzegorz Braun, who ran an antisemitic campaign. Nawrocki told Braun that he would fight “all the disgusting attacks” on Poland by Holocaust scholars. He previously promised to end the tradition of lighting Hanukkah candles in the presidential palace, which Braun shocked the Polish parliament in 2023 by disrupting.

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9 replies
  1. K M Landis
    K M Landis says:
    June 3, 2025 at 4:57 pm

    This is good news. The media didn’t report this result. I wonder why.

    I had feared that Poland would follow the example of Romania, and elect another globalist stooge. But they didn’t. Instead, they voted for a nationalist, Karol Nawrocki. Well done!

    • Salus Populi
      Salus Populi says:
      June 4, 2025 at 5:39 am

      In Britain, the BBC was giving live coverage of this election, like it was major news for British people. And I was thinking to myself, since when did the BBC care about Polish elections so much?

      Haha, now I know.

  2. Roy Albrecht
    Roy Albrecht says:
    June 3, 2025 at 4:59 pm

    Whenever an issue involving Poland pops up, I’m immediately reminded of a phrase first heard uttered by an octogenarian Empire Loyalist couple from Canada; “… it’s a dog’s breakfast.”, and this one has been especially masticated and regurgitated for good measure.
    Beginning with my own biases going back to the mid 19th century when my grandmother (born 1896) used to tell me stories of when her mother (born 1858) would constantly admonish her to, –
    “…spär die Fenster zu, sonst klettern die Polen durch, als wir weg sind.”, –
    to present day Polish bus drivers who seem to make it their life’s work to run German Audi drivers off the road during municipal transit runs in Reykjavik, Iceland.
    Luckily I’m now a TOO educated, race realist and have come to grips with these endemic Polish qualities.
    Moving forward, the Mega-chutzpah, exponentially inflated Holo-twist (out with Dresden, multiply by ten and in with the Holohoax) has been part of my life for pretty well as far back as I can remember.
    So,
    1) Quoting Jew sources in the above article may protect the writer from persecution by prosecution, it doesn’t really shed a clear light on the fraudulent nature of the subject(s) at hand.
    2) Poles have been subjected to their fair share of Jew induced trauma from both sides of the political spheres of influence and have opted for a sort of middle finger ground by trusting no one and grabbing by hook or by crook anything they can lay their hands on.
    3) Although not ideal, at least they have learned to distrust the establishment no matter where they reside.

  3. Tim
    Tim says:
    June 4, 2025 at 4:54 am

    Great! Or to quote a Jew: “The Times They Are a-Changin'”

  4. Freddy
    Freddy says:
    June 4, 2025 at 6:56 am

    A golden Jew-free age dawns. Ron Unz,
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    For creatures like this one, however, a dras-
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  5. ps
    ps says:
    June 4, 2025 at 12:04 pm

    https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-does-this-article-say-htt-YeVhWJD1RC.2MzutM8N12g

  6. Bartosz Szyk
    Bartosz Szyk says:
    June 4, 2025 at 10:16 pm

    Is Kevin MacDonald the author of this article? Am I understanding this correctly? Or is this a repost from a different source, by a different author?

    JTA: Karol Nawrocki, right-wing Holocaust revisionist historian, elected Polish president
    June 3, 2025/5 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

    • Kevin MacDonald
      Kevin MacDonald says:
      June 5, 2025 at 7:04 am

      Obviously it’s from JTA.

  7. Sceptical White Goy
    Sceptical White Goy says:
    June 9, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    Weak centrist. Probably won’t do much good, if any, though I voted for him of course for lack of better candidate in the second round. In the first one I voted for Braun of course (again for lack of better one), though even he is far, far away from ideal. He is not even a racialist, let alone national socialist, to the contrary his antiracial, antinazi views are well known. He is antisemite though (and that’s probably the biggest positive difference between him and Nawrocki)… but it seems that his anti-jewish views are very superficial, he doesn’t seem to understand that jewish menace is far greater than some symbolical, historical and financial issues (give me shekels goys for my muh holocaust so I can spend more money on white genocide). He doesn’t understand that jews are behind virtually every social evil. Doesn’t understand that migrants from third world are not only so violent because of their inferior culture, but also, and much more importantly because of their inferior genes. Doesn’t seem to understand that low birthrate is not the result of some gays and trannies on the streets once a year, but the result of constant, daily jewish programming of white brains via (((their))) porn and popular culture to see sexuality as source of some sick and degenerate pleasure rather than source of life. He doesn’t understand that in order to defeat the jews, whites must unite, leaving behind the past that divides us. On the contrary he is well known for his anti-german and anti-ukrainian views. He sees the problem of islam, doesn’t see far greater problem of race mixing. He wants to increase the number of Poles, but at the same time he wants to BAN (yes, you hear that correct)… eugenics!!! So this is how our polish ‘far-right’ looks like. Outdated, obscurant christian fundamentalism and (very ‘christian’ indeed) hatred towards other white, traditionally christian nations, rather than modern racial science and white solidarity… And you see on most of these points Nawrocki is even weaker than Braun. More kosher, more liberal, more antifascist, more antiracist more… you have it, I mean, you get my point. And my point is that we really have no good reason for celebration. Rather we must create sth better ourselves, rather than rely on some weak politicians who probably haven’t even heard about Kevin MacDonald, or Jared Taylor, not to mention reading them or listening to them… Wait the party who officially stands behind Nawrocki must have heard about Jared since they were the guys who prevented him from entering Poland (and the same these very people present themselves as opponents immigration). A joke and comedy of a right indeed.

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