Is the "Our Boys" exhibition no better than Braun's antics? "Historical frenzy is our specialty."

Our boys are having a great time. And I'm not referring to those unfortunate souls who, after being forcibly conscripted into the Wehrmacht, reportedly felt "the excitement of new experiences and the opportunity to see previously unknown sides." I'm more referring to the daredevils who gave this title to the exhibition about the plight of Poles forced to serve the Third Reich. And also to those who immediately dismissed it as a sabotage operation orchestrated from Berlin by Werwolf inheritors, seeking ways to equate Poland with the Third Reich.

Some eagerly lumped the exhibition's protagonists into the category of collaborationists, while others hid their mistake behind platitudes about a complicated and painful history that must eventually be revealed. Yet, no one in Gdańsk discovered anything new.

The dramatic fate of hundreds of thousands of Poles from Pomerania, Greater Poland and Silesia, forced to serve in the army of the Third Reich, is a topic well known to historians and does not arouse much controversy.

Unless, of course, it's not about any historical truths, but about dragging a stick through the cage in which rivals are placed, reducing them to the level of fanatical adherents of the immaculate memory of our historical heroism. However, this is also a miss, because among the numerous, real—but also highly charged—Polish sins, one cannot find any excessive fascination with collaboration with the Third Reich. In this sense, the exhibition affectionately titled "Our Boys" could be considered a clumsy attempt to lend credence to such insinuations. This, in turn, means that its creators are no better than MEP Braun with his negationist provocations .