"Arbeit Macht Frei" sign stolen from Auschwitz

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18 Dec 2009, 7:42 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091218/ap_ ... ign_stolen

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18 Dec 2009, 9:07 am

I'd suspect that the people who stole it are aligned with the Polish Far- Right. --I hope it get's found quickly.

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18 Dec 2009, 9:19 am

Absolutely crazy idea!
Btw, Tim I thought you would be away for a while :wink:

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18 Dec 2009, 9:40 am

Not a sign of freedom :roll: topic

Ironic (Double Entendre). :evil:

Where was security for 90 minutes? :evil: :evil:

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18 Dec 2009, 9:56 am

I went to Auschwitz as a college student having spent a semester in London, and then the summer traveling like a bum country by country, staying in hostels. Such an incredible, moving moment it was to see what the history books made seem impossible. I don't believe in ghosts, but I clearly remember feeling haunted as I made my way through the cabins, the gas chambers and the ovens. There is a spiritual presence in the camps that simply washes over visitors. I was young enough that I felt too ashamed to cry in public so I went to the bathroom.

If you plan on a trip to Europe you owe to yourself as a member of the human race to visit one of these camps. Put it on your agenda.

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18 Dec 2009, 11:57 am

If work makes the ghost free why are they still there?

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18 Dec 2009, 1:58 pm

This theft is worse than "normal" scrap metal theft, I think that whoever stole the sign should return it right now and hand themselves in for an education on the history of WWII (plus prison).

I think that this crime is disgusting the news of the theft digusts me.

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18 Dec 2009, 5:23 pm

:evil:

I hope they'll find it soon.

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19 Dec 2009, 7:04 am

That is probably the most famous sign in the world.

What are they going to do? Sell it on Ebay?

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19 Dec 2009, 11:53 pm

there are criminals stupid enough to do it...

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20 Dec 2009, 12:00 am

I know people think they stole the sign because they were antisemites but what if they just got rid of the sign because they found it offensive?

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20 Dec 2009, 7:32 pm

History_of_psychiatry, that's what I thought too; what if they were just so offended by the sign that they wanted to destroy it? That made more sense to me than neo-nazis, because what good is it going to do them?

Either way, they found it, cut into three pieces in northern Poland. Here's the link.

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21 Dec 2009, 5:00 pm

Pitty the sign has been cut up, I hope that someone can think of a way of doing an "invisible" repair job on it.

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21 Dec 2009, 8:55 pm

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The five suspects, aged in their 20s and 30s, were not members of a neo-Nazi group, Krakow police said.
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Andrzej Rokita, the local police chief in Krakow - where the men were being questioned - said the theft had been financially motivated, and it remained unclear whether it was carried out to order.
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"From the information we have, none of the five belong to a neo-Nazi group nor hold such ideas," Andrzej Rokita said of the suspects.
"We have arrested five men aged from 20 to 39 in the north of Poland," said Krakow police spokesman Dariusz Nowak.
"They were picked up shortly before midnight and the sign was found in a house," he added without giving further details.
The wrought-iron sign was half-unscrewed, half-torn off from above the death camp's gate between 0330 and 0500 on Friday.
Investigators said at least two people would have been needed to steal the 40kg (90lb) sign.
Auschwitz museum spokesman Jaroslaw Mensfelt said the thieves had apparently carried the sign 300m (328 yards) to an opening in a concrete wall. The opening was left intentionally to preserve a poplar tree dating back to the time of World War II.
Four metal bars that blocked the opening had been cut and footprints in the snow led from the wall opening to the nearby road, where police presume the sign was loaded on to a vehicle.

See: BBC News - Poland police question men over stolen Auschwitz sign

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22 Dec 2009, 3:01 am

Good News! The found the original Arbeit Macht Frei sign. Isn't that wonderful?

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