Phrases such as "Polish death camps" are regularly used in the Western journalism and in American schools. These phrases offend Poles who sustained unspeakable suffering from the hands of Nazi Germans and the Soviets during WW II. Poles demonstrated heroism in action fighting evil during the catactlysm of WW II, on Polish geographical land under the German and Soviet occupation. The phrases in question clearly wrongly suggest that the death camps built by the aggressors and occupiers were in fact Polish. Over the past two years, more than 300,000 people have signed a petition on the Kosciuszko Foundation's web site requesting media to stop using these phrases. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press and others have changed their stylebooks to ban the phrases.
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