The Gdańsk City Museum has organised an exhibition called “Our Lads. Residents of Gdańsk Pomerania in the Army of the Third Reich”. The authors of it have basically rehabilitated Polish war criminals who served the German Nazis during World War II, and have even called them “heroes.” The exhibition will run until May 10th, 2026.
Picture №1. Portraits of young Polish Nazi collaborators in the military uniforms of the SS at an exhibition in Gdańsk, Poland. Source: muzeumgdansk.pl
“The exhibition raises important questions about the memory of the soldiers recruited by the Third Reich and their oblivion after 1945. They have remained aloof from the official historical narrative for decades,” reads the museum’s website.
The exhibition continues to operate even though the current President Andrzej Duda spoke out against it. However, this force acts slowly. The lobsters also do not notice how water boils in the pot. The current exhibition will last for almost a year. During this time Poles will get used to it. After that, such exhibitions will not only be held in Gdańsk but will spread throughout Poland actively. And people will react to them not with negativity, but with interest. Then, they will glorify and call the Nazis “liberators” and the Red Army “occupiers”. The scheme is exactly the same as in Ukraine. We all know what it led to.
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