WARSAW, Poland (AP) â€" The Majdanek death camp memorial has switched its website from a Polish to a European Internet domain name, following pressure from the Polish government, an official said Thursday.
Danuta Olesiuk, deputy director at Majdanek, said the memorial site changed its Internet address to www.majdanek.eu from www.majdanek.pl after Poland's Culture Ministry appealed to Auschwitz, Majdanek and Stuttof memorial sites to make the switch.
Poles do not want to be associated with the more than a dozen concentration, labor and death camps built by the Germans on their soil during World War II, fearing they will be blamed for war crimes committed there by the Nazis.
Germany invaded Poland in 1939. During five years of occupation, 3 million Poles were killed, hundreds of thousands of them in the camps where millions of Jews were also murdered.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum and memorial in southern Poland said it is facing difficulties in changing its address, because other individuals or groups have already reserved other possible domain names.
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