Apology from FBI chief demanded

Poland's Foreign Ministry urgently summoned US Ambassador Stephen Mull on Sunday to "protest and demand an apology" after the head of the FBI suggested that Poles were accomplices in the Holocaust.

FBI director James Comey made the remarks in an article about the need to teach people about the Holocaust that was published by The Washington Post on Thursday. It was adapted from a speech he gave on Wednesday at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

In the article, Comey said, "In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do".