Poland fires tourism boss over 'scandalous' Auschwitz remark

The head of the Polish national tourist organisation has been fired after he said he wanted to remove the Auschwitz memorial and a Jewish history museum from tours for foreign journalists.

Tourism minister Witold Banka said on Twitter he was firing Marek Olszewski immediately over "scandalous remarks" the head of the Polish Organisation of Tourism made in the Gazeta Wyborcza daily.