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Before Poland’s president signed the law last month, U.S. officials strongly argued against it. But U.S. diplomats have also sought to give the Warsaw government room to back away without the appearance of doing Washington’s bidding.

Christopher R. Hill, a former U.S. ambassador to Poland who is now with the University of Denver, called the law the “revenge of the peasants” in Poland and said the United States is trying to encourage Polish officials to correct their course on their own.

“The Poles have gotten themselves into an unnecessary box,” said Dan Fried, also a former U.S. ambassador to Poland, now with the Atlantic Council in Washington. “This law is utterly unnecessary, and yet they passed it, and now the Polish right is saying you can’t get rid of it under pressure from the outside.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/report-polish-officials-may-face-us-sanctions-over-holocaust-law/2018/03/07/845fd872-2224-11e8-946c-9420060cb7bd_story.html?utm_term=.d7a732c746e6

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