Any student of politics in Eastern and Central Europe soon discovers that there are layers of complexity which we in Western Europe often find difficult to grasp.
One of those layers concerns the region’s attitude to Jews, which often seems to be based on different gradations of antisemitism, some implicit and some explicit.
But there is little implicit in the case of UKIP’s new ally in the European Parliament.
The leader of the Polish Congress of the New Right, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, says that Hitler was unaware of the Holocaust, attacks the “Holocaust industry” and says that Jews “are our worst enemies”.
