June 2, 2008

The Radio Prague, in its newsletter disseminated all over the world, just released the following official statement of the Czech Foreign Ministry (to quote:)

Foreign Ministry: Polansky's book full of inaccuracies                 
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Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has distanced 
himself from a book by American writer Paul Polansky which 
alleges that Mr. Schwarzenberg's aristocratic parents used 
prisoners from the Lety concentration camp as a cheap labor 
source on their estate. In his book The Storm, Mr. Polansky 
claims that in the early years of the war, when the 
German-controlled Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was 
still under Czech administration, though based on German 
directives, the Schwarzenberg family contacted the Interior 
Ministry and requested that one of the labour camps being 
built should be located near their estate, so that they 
might have cheap laborers to work in their blizzard-decimated 
forests. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zuzana Opletalova said 
that Mr. Schwarzenberg had read Paul Polansky's book and 
found it contained basic errors and false information. The         
statements about Lety are a case in point, she said.                   

What "basic errors" and what "false information" the Czech radio in the Foreign Minister's official statement did not disclose.

But the news about the Polansky's book The Storm alleges much more, " . . .it was difficult to obtain a copy. Rumor has it that a Czech nobleman bought up all the books in both Czech and English."

Officially, The Storm is OUT OF PRINT- SECOND EDITION TO BE AVAILABLE BY AUGUST (2008) Review is HERE. Another review at Amazon.com is HERE (cover up by Karel Schwanzenberg while working at the Prague's Castle for president Vaclav Havel). Another cover-up by the Prague's Castle information is HERE.

Further to quote: "Senator Petr Pithart, who expressed interest in Polansky?s research of the Lety case in the 1990s, are less dismissive.Standing at the mass graves near the Lety camp during a recent commemoration, Pithart said Polansky?s allegations were to be taken seriously."

Just read it all HERE (http://www.paulpolansky.nstemp.com/about.html).

Has Newyorskelisty.com comment? not (YET)

Josef Schrabal

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