WARSAW (AFP)---Poland threatened Tuesday to sue Germany's Die Welt newspaper for referring to the Majdanek Nazi concentration camp -- where 360,000 perished during World War II -- as a "Polish camp".


"It's scandalous ... all the more since this is a German newspaper," Poland's deputy Foreign Minister Ryszard Schnepf told Poland's commercial RMF radio.

"I support radical measures. I'm thinking of launching a serious and high-profile court case for big money against this kind of newspaper so it will echo in the world press."

The error was made in a report from Israel, printed Monday in Die Welt, detailing a visit by Israelis to the World War II concentration camp near Lublin, eastern Poland.

The Internet version of the report was corrected Tuesday, with Die Welt explaining that Majdanek was "a German concentration camp installed by the SS in Poland which was occupied on the orders of Heinrich Himmler
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