The US ambassador is harsh on Tucker Carlson after his comments about the invasion of Poland

This concerns Carlson's conversation with former British minister Jacob Rees-Mogg, in which the American publicist, among others, justified the Third Reich's invasion of Poland in 1939 by claiming that Germany had been stripped of its "German territories with Germans." He did not respond to the interlocutor's retort, who pointed out that Prussia had previously participated in the partitions of Poland. These were his arguments, and, by the way, they were true, Carlson said, referring to Hitler's arguments before the war.

The British politician repeatedly corrected his interlocutor's statements, accusing him of "balancing on the verge of defending Hitler." Carlson denied the accusation, saying he was "not a secret Nazi."

"Historical Illiterate"

Ambassador Rose wrote on X on Tuesday that Carlson's "interview" "shows why he is the most dangerous demagogue in America and a historically illiterate masquerading as a modern-day Herodotus."

"By 'undermining' every established historical truth, his goal is to erase every moral distinction and reduce history to a series of supposedly 'unresolved questions' - all of which, not coincidentally, turn the decent into the demonic and the demonic into the decent," Rose wrote.

According to him, by asking "so-called questions" about Hitler's "claims" or the meaning of defeating Nazi Germany, Carlson does not aim to illuminate history, but to reverse it.

"Aggressors become victims. Victims become aggressors. Dictators are statesmen. Defending democracies are war criminals. The blame for history's greatest crimes is decontextualized so that responsibility can shift to the victims of these crimes," Rose added.

He emphasized that "rewriting history so that Nazi Germany appears as the victim and Poland - the nation that Hitler invaded, occupied, terrorized and sought to destroy - as the criminal, is a deliberate destruction of moral truth and a grotesque insult to a nation that has paid a price of blood unparalleled in the annals of human crimes."

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, thanked the US ambassador on the X website. Earlier, Carlson's statement was described as scandalous by government spokesman Adam Szłapka.

Who is Tucker Carlson? He declared sympathy for Putin

The interview with Rees-Mogg was not the first in which Carlson, a former Fox News star known for his pro-Russian views, criticized the Allies' participation in the war against the Third Reich. In the past he invited, among others: Daryl Cooper, a historian and podcaster known for his revisionism and relativization of Hitler. He also repeatedly declared sympathy for Vladimir Putin's Russia and suggested its superiority over the West.

In an interview with Rees-Mogg, Carlson claimed, among other things, contrary to the facts, that the Russian economy is "much bigger" than the British one, and Russia locks up much fewer people in prison than the UK for posts on social media.

Klich demanded an apology

On Monday, the embassy in Washington published a letter sent by the charge d'affaires of the Polish embassy in Washington, Bogdan Klich, to Carlson, in which he emphasized that he was "outraged by the false and deeply disturbing statements" of the podcaster.