AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, Poland — Polish police said Monday they found the Nazi sign "Work Will Set You Free" from the Auschwitz death camp cut in three pieces after it was stolen by five suspects with no neo-Nazi links.
Andrzej Rokita, commander in the nearby southern Polish city of Krakow, told reporters that "from the information we have none of the five belong to a neo-Nazi group nor hold s More..uch ideas".
The five suspects, aged 20 to 39 and with criminal records for theft or violence, face up to 10 years in prison if convicted, police said.
Police arrested the men shortly before midnight Sunday. The theft sent shockwaves around the world when it was discovered Friday morning at the site of the former death camp on the edge of the southern Polish city of Oswiecim.
"This is a huge relief. The museum staff were affected by this in a very personal way, so the sense of relief is tangible," Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum spokesman Jaroslaw Mensfelt told AFP.
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HaroldsCatsRevenge 7 months ago
HOORAY HITLER
HaroldsCatsRevenge 8 months ago
@HaroldsCatsRevenge
I bet you would have been in that camp if you were alive then. They would most certainly make you their bitch and keep you alive a little longer so you could suck a lot more dicks before you got killed.
rkss27 8 months ago
@rkss27 wd be cool to put this excellent sign over the gates of berlin...in fact there shd be this sign every mile along every highway!!!
HaroldsCatsRevenge 8 months ago
@HaroldsCatsRevenge
You are a fucking idiot. Grow the fuck up you little bitch.
rkss27 9 months ago
Steal the damn sign again and melt it down this time, into swasticas!
HaroldsCatsRevenge 2 years ago