British Airways drops 'anti-Polish' WWII drama

Our Mothers, Our Fathers: ZDF

In a letter to British Airways, the league had argued that Our Fathers, Our Mothers (Unsere Mutter, Unsere Vater) “falsified history” by portraying Poland's official underground force, the Home Army (AK) as anti-semitic.

The independent league suggested that British Airways, “as the national carrier of Great Britain, has a special responsibility in remembering the Polish troops who fought heroically during World War II in the air, on the sea and on land, as comrades in arms of Great Britain.”

The letter pointed out that some Jews had served in the ranks of AK, and that the Polish Underground State was “the only underground organization in Europe which included a unit dedicated to saving the Jewish people from being killed by the Germans [Zegota]."

Our Fathers, Our Mothers, which was co-produced by German public station ZDF, was watched by over 7 million viewers in Germany and the rights have since been sold to dozens of countries across the globe.

The series follows the fate of five German friends between 1941 and 1946, and it was screened by Polish public broadcaster TVP in 2013, amid much controversy.

At one point in the drama, Polish partisans stop a German train, but when they discover that the passengers are Jews being transported to a concentration camp, they decide not to free the inmates. In another scene a Jew is thrown out of a partisan unit when his background is revealed.

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Source: Polish League Against Defamation/reduta-dobrego-imienia.pl