A novel attack on press freedom and perhaps the imprecise use of adjectives has been made by Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party.

Polish authorities have reopened an investigation into Second World War crimes committed at Auschwitz and its satellite camps which was closed in the 1980s because of the country’s isolation behind the Iron Curtain.

German prosecutors have reopened hundreds of dormant investigations of former Nazi death camp guards and others who might now be charged under a new precedent set by the conviction of retired US car worker John Demjanjuk.