WARSAW – A Polish historian resigned Monday from the government's historical institute after controversy erupted over his past ties with a far-right organization and photos of him making the stiff-armed fascist salute.
Tomasz Greniuch was recently appointed to head the Wroclaw office of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), a state organization whose role is to investigate Nazi and communist era crimes.
The head of the institute, Jaroslaw Szarek, said in a statement Monday that Greniuch offered his resignation and it had been accepted.
Szarek said the circumstances surrounding the appointment had made it impossible for Greniuch to do his job. Outrage had been mounting over the appointment in Poland, a country that suffered enormously