Director of Poland’s Second World War Museum dismissed

The Polish historian Pawel Machcewicz has been dismissed from his role as director of the newly-opened Second World War Museum in Gdansk, one of the worlds largest historical museums. The move comes shortly after a court ruling paved the way for a controversial merger with the still-unbuilt Westerplatte Museum, allowing Polands right-wing PiS government to create a new state-sanctioned institution. On 6 April, Polands minister of culture, Piotr Glinski, appointed Karol Nawrocki as the