article_snippet.sent: The speech was adapted for an article published in The Washington Post on Thursday.
article_snippet.sent: President Barack Obama caused a similar controversy in 2012 when President Barack Obama used the wording 'Polish death camp.'
article_snippet.sent: Poles feel that that wording implies Polish complicity, and President Barack Obama later expressed 'regret' for the gaffe. '
article_snippet.sent: In referring to 'a Polish death camp' rather than 'a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland,' I inadvertently used a phrase that has caused many Poles anguish over the years and that Poland has rightly campaigned to eliminate from public discourse around the world,' President Barack Obama wrote at the time. '
article_snippet.sent: The entrance to the Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, Poland.
highlights_snippet.sent: The remarks came shortly before the 72nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which was commemorated on Sunday .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The incident echoes a gaffe by President Obama in 2012 when President Obama referred to 'a Polish death camp' - President Obama offered President Obama regrets for the error .