Oftencold
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From The Times
December 19, 2009
The sign that hung over the gates of Auschwitz extermination camp, where more
than a million people died during the Second World War, was stolen in minutes.
Polish police suspect that the culprits were either neo-Nazis or acting on behalf of
collectors or a group of individuals.
The slogan wrought in iron, Arbeit Macht Frei (“Work sets you free”), was the
cynical welcome to those entering the camp in the 1940s. One million of the 1.1
million people who died at Auschwitz were Jewish.
The theft in the early hours of yesterday was seen as an attempt by right-wing
extremists to muddy the narrative of the Holocaust.
ARTICLE
December 19, 2009
The sign that hung over the gates of Auschwitz extermination camp, where more
than a million people died during the Second World War, was stolen in minutes.
Polish police suspect that the culprits were either neo-Nazis or acting on behalf of
collectors or a group of individuals.
The slogan wrought in iron, Arbeit Macht Frei (“Work sets you free”), was the
cynical welcome to those entering the camp in the 1940s. One million of the 1.1
million people who died at Auschwitz were Jewish.
The theft in the early hours of yesterday was seen as an attempt by right-wing
extremists to muddy the narrative of the Holocaust.
ARTICLE
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