AOC Invited By Polish Official To Visit Hitler’s Concentration Camps In The Most Polite, Yet SAVAGE Letter

One of the opportunities I’ve been blessed enough to experience is visiting a Nazi concentration camp in Germany. I know it sounds weird to call that a blessing, but I genuinely believe it’s something everyone should endeavor to do. Nothing else in the world comes as close to communicating the sheer brutal truth of what the Nazis did as entering the physical space in which these atrocities took place, and, though it is heartbreaking, it imparts an understanding of history and those who participated that is utterly vital when it comes to building a better humanity.

It’s not just me who feels this way, though. Polish Member of Parliament Dominik Tarczyński extended a formal invitation to AOC to visit any of Poland’s concentration camps that have been preserved precisely to discourage the kinds of remarks and comparisons the Congresswoman is guilty of. In a letter shared to Twitter, Tarczyński wrote:

With this letter, I am formally inviting @AOC to come to Poland,where Adolf Hitler set up the worst chain of concentration camps the world has ever seen, so that she may see that scoring political points with enflamed rhetoric is unacceptable in our contemporary Western societies pic.twitter.com/ivOTfmiCfo

— Dominik Tarczyński MEP (@D_Tarczynski) June 20, 2019

Dear Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez,

My name is Dominik Tarczyński and I am a Member of Parliament in Poland where I serve as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. I am also a great fan and friend of the United States.

I write to you out of distress in having learned of your recent statements regarding concentration camps.

As you should be aware, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) who led germany, were responsible for the darkest period in my country’s and our whole continent’s history by devising a chain of concentration camps in order to exterminate those who they believed were subhuman, or a threat to their imperialist machinations- this included both Jewish Poles and non-Jewish Poles and which resulted in the loss of six million of our citizens.

While under German Nazi occupation, a number of concentration camps were set up in my country, Poland. It has caused a deep wound that persists on our proud Polish and European history that we must all deal with every single day, and that we reaffirm to one another can never be forgotten, and never be allowed to happen again.

This is why when someone cheapens the history, or uses it for political point-scoring, we become agitated and upset.

I understand that there are heightened tensions in your politics right now, but I would urge severe caution in attempting to leverage phrases such as “concentration camp” for political ends. It will lead nowhere good.

With this in mind, however, I wish to extend the olive branch of education to you, Congresswoman, and would be delighted if you would accept my offer to come to Poland and study the concentration camps here for real, so that you can see how different it is from your immigration processing centers on the U.S. border.

At your convenience, we could visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor and Majdanek.

At these camps and others, over three million human souls were extinguished, and millions more detained and affected directly.

I look forward to hearing back from you with the hope of setting up a trip to my country soon.

You speak often of bipartisanship, and I feel this is one area in particular where we can begin to live that ideal.

Regards,

Dominik Tarczyński

Member of Parliament, Poland

Mic. Drop.

This is the most polite, nuanced, and utterly SAVAGE take downs I have ever seen in my life. Mr. Tarczyński, you are my hero.

AOC has yet to respond to Mr. Tarczyński’s invitation, but I hope she takes him up on it. I doubt she will; I envision a response along the lines of, “You come to our border first.” Although based on what little I know about Tarczyński, I expect he would accept the invitation, visit the immigration processing centers, and confirm that he was right in the first place.

But all jokes aside, Mr. Tarczyński’s words are powerful. Just as many Europeans fail to fully appreciate the reality of slavery in America’s history, we as Americans lack the immediacy afforded to countries like Germany and Poland to fully understand the lived reality of the Holocaust. Instead of taking someone else’s history and twisting it for “political point-scoring” (if I may borrow Mr. Tarczyński’s words), we should educate ourselves and each other with every resource available. Meaning, when a Polish Member of Parliament personally invites you to tour some of the most visceral, gut-wrenching, heavy, significant, vitally important historical landmarks in the entire world, you should go. You should open your mind, you should shut down your ego, and you listen to the stories of the people that were there before.

Thank you, Dominik Tarczyński, for reminding us to educate and understand, rather than demean and point fingers.