Bogdan Klich, the Polish chargé d’affaires at the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C., lashed out at Tucker Carlson for recent comments he made regarding World War II, calling them “Nazi propaganda” and demanding an apology.

In an Oct. 2 podcast with British politician Jacob Rees-Mogg, Carlson claimed that “Hitler said 15% of Poland was once Germany and it was given to Poland at the Treaty of Versailles. That was German territory with Germans in it,” adding that “Hitler did not want to go to war with the United Kingdom.” He then asked Rees-Mogg whether Britain would have benefited more from Hitler’s victory rather than from his defeat.

Addressing his statement directly to Carlson, Klich wrote, “I am outraged by the false and deeply troubling statements you made regarding the outbreak of the Second World War during your recent conversation with Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg.” The diplomat added that Carlson’s justification for “Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939” is “a colossal insult to the millions of victims of Nazism, including hundreds of thousands of American soldiers who had been killed or wounded while liberating Europe from the occupation by the Third Reich.”

Klich took Carlson to task for denying the historical truth that the United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany not only because of their obligation as allies but also because war was coming to their borders regardless, since Hitler’s intention was to conquer the world. The envoy also lectured him for abandoning journalistic ethics.

“As an American journalist who enjoys the democratic right to the freedom of speech, you have now become an apologist for Adolf Hitler. In doing so, you resort to lies, completely falsifying the documented historical record,” he said.

Klich then schooled the former Fox News host in the facts.

“Let me therefore remind you of the indisputable facts,” he said. “Nazi Germany’s attack on Poland on September 1st, 1939 was a meticulously planned and brutal war of aggression. Hitler’s objective was the complete destruction of the Polish state and the physical extermination of its population, followed by a continued bloody conquest of the world. Hitler acted in collusion with another totalitarian criminal, Joseph Stalin. Together, they planned what is known as the fourth partition of Poland, set out in the secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, which paved the way for the tragedy of millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe, including the near-total extermination of Europe’s Jewish population.”

The Polish diplomat concluded his statement with a demand for an apology and a warning.

“I demand that you immediately and publicly retract and apologize for these deceitful and disgraceful statements,” he said. “Nazi propaganda cannot be rehabilitated under the guise of free speech, nor should the freedom of speech be used to desecrate the memory of the victims of the Second World War.”

“History must not be distorted. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” Klich warned.