Polish Right-Wing Party Protests Withdrawal Of Books From Frankfurt Book Fair.
Published:
11 November 2000 y., Saturday
The NORTOM publishing house and the [extra-parliamentary] National Party [SN] are of the opinion that the removal of books published by the company from the 52nd International Frankfurt Book Fair was illegal.
They are placing the blame for this decision on Andrzej Nowakowski, the plenipotentiary of the [Polish] minister of culture. The head of the NORTOM publishing house, Norbert Tomczyk, has stressed at a press conference that at the book fair in Frankfurt NORTOM had presented, among others, the works of [pre-war integral nationalist politician] Roman Dmowski, where the introduction to one of his books, entitled "Church, nation, state", was written by Primate [Cardinal] Jozef Glemp.
Asked by PAP to comment upon this case, Nowakowski said that the problem of the removal of NORTOM from the book fair concerned books that were anti-Semitic and anti-German, and not the works of Roman Dmowski. He included amongst the former a book by Jedrzej Giertych entitled "Poland-Germany".
In the view of Piotr Dobrolecki, the press spokesman of the Polish exhibition at the Frankfurt Fair, nobody had earlier checked the books that particular publishers would display at the fair. Neither was the content of the catalogue prepared before the fair audited.
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