Poland fires tourism boss for 'scandalous' Auschwitz remark

Poland's tourism minister said Wednesday he was firing the head of the national tourism organization after he said he wanted to remove the Auschwitz memorial and a Jewish history museum from tours for foreign journalists.

Witold Banka said on Twitter he was dismissing Marek Olszewski immediately over "scandalous remarks" the head of the Polish Organization of Tourism made in Wednesday's Gazeta Wyborcza daily.

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