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Poland offers reward for return of Auschwitz sign

Sun, Dec 20 2009 09:31 CET

byRene Beekman

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Poland offers reward for return of Auschwitz sign

 
Photo: Irek Dorozanski

The Auschwitz museum has announced a reward of 115 000 zlotych (27 500 euro) for the return of the sign that hung over the gates of the concentration camp.

The cruelly ironic sign, 'Arbeit Macht Frei', that greeted prisoners destined for the death camps at Auschwitz, was stolen on the morning of December 18 2009.
The office of the Polish prime minister announced a special investigation into the theft has been started.

Poland's president Lech Kaczynski said "I am shocked and outraged at the theft of this famous symbol of Nazi cynicism and brutality."
Four guards of the museum had been interrogated so far. The entrance gate was not covered by security cameras.

Police has intensified controls at borders and the airport and searched storages of metal recycling companies, Associated Press said. 

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Anonymous Epaminondas Sun, Dec 20 2009 20:50 CET
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I saw this sign when visiting Auschwitz/Oswiecim as a student 40 years ago, and it made a great impression upon me then. No reason to change my mind now.

The only thing I might say - and this is excruciatingly ironic - is that 65 years ago the security around the camp perimeter and the gateway might have been rather better, and the thieves might have met a rather sharper and more immediate jurisdiction !

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