“Gazeta Wyborcza” newspaper  has uncovered the justification of the decision by the Prosecutor’s Office, which in February 2017 had closed the case against the publisher of a book by Leon Degrelle. In September 2016, “Wyborcza” reported that the book by a Belgian SS member, Leon Degrelle  – “Hitler’s Century” – was available in the largest Polish bookstores. It was published by a little-known Gdańsk-based publishing house “Finna” run by Andrzej Ryba, a history graduate from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. In his foreword, Ryba stated that Degrelle’s work was anti-Semitic, anti-Slavic and anti-Polish, adding controversially that: “The book is a great proof that there is no such thing as an objective, or the only right history.”

In January 2017, the Open Republic submitted to the Prosecutor General a motion for prosecution in which we indicated that the book was still being sold online. In June 2017, the District Prosecutor’s Office of Kraków – Krowodrza opened an investigation of the offense (specified in art. 256 § 1 of the Criminal Code), which was then discontinued in August 2017 without any explanation.