Anger over Euro Museum

Last December, when reporting on the creation of a museum for European history, I said “there is bound to be argument” over the content. Well, we’re barely into 2009 and I’ve already seen an article listing quotes from Europeans unhappy over the interpretations of key events. Polish MP Adam Bielan is concerned about language used in preliminary work about World War 2, saying that it ignores the contribution of Poland to the war and suggests that “the outbreak of World War Two was Hitler's success”. Meanwhile there appears to be a disagreement brewing over the influence of America on the continent. Further trouble is being caused by alledged internal sources implying that the museum should basically be selling the idea of an, even further, united Europe, which isn’t exactly attempting the bias free explanation of the past I like in a museum.