Poles should report to Poland critics
Poland calls on compatriots living abroad to report anti-Polish statements to official bodies. This emerges after NDR research from an official letter. It is distributed worldwide.
Poles living abroad are officially invited to report to critics of the country. In a letter distributed worldwide through embassies and consulates, it says:
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"Please, document any anti-Polish comments, representations and opinions that harm us and respond to them, and inform our embassies, consulates and honorary consulates about any slander affecting Poland's reputation."
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According to NDR information, the three-page letter has already been sent via the Polish Consulate General in Munich via mail distributor to Poles living in southern Germany. The consulate in Hamburg has announced that it will publish the letter on Thursday both on its own homepage and via mail distributor.
New Holocaust Law provides for dispute
The background to the unusual step is the controversial Holocaust law. Poland's President Andrzej Duda had signed it recently. Under the threat of up to three years' imprisonment, the law prohibits blaming Poland as a nation for Holocaust crimes committed by German occupiers in World War II.
In Israel, the law met with sharp criticism. There it is feared that it will allow the government to color the role of Poles, who have committed crimes against Jews during the Second World War.
"Common tasks of representation"
For Senate Marshal Stanislaw Karczewski, from whom the letter originates, Poles at home and abroad have for many years been "confronted with the painful, unfair - and above all - factually incorrect formulation of 'Polish death camps' as well as with the accusation that Poland is involved in the Holocaust ". This is a violation of national dignity and national pride, writes the Polish politician.
The Polish ambassador in Berlin, Andrzej Przylebski, said on NDR's request that the call to document anti-Polish statements and to report to embassies and consulates was "the usual duties of diplomatic or consular representation".
How to deal with the information collected, is not yet determined, said Przylebski. So far, there are no implementing provisions for the law.
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/polen-315.html (in German 
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Of course with "Poland critics" is meant the critics at the actual Polish government and the governing right wing Party and nothing else. 
I feel remembered at the mindset espionage in Germany during the III. Reich or Stasi activities in former East Germany.
Well, folks, let's criticise the actual Polish government hard - and not mistakable -, that the Mindset Spy's are having a lot of work and something to report to the Polish government.