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Police: Auschwitz 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign stolen
AP ^ | 2009/12/18

Posted on 12/18/2009 12:04:59 AM PST by Grzegorz 246

WARSAW, Poland – Polish police say the infamous iron sign over the gate to the Auschwitz memorial site with the cynical phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei" — German for "Work Sets You Free" — has been stolen.

Police spokeswoman Katarzyna Padlo said police believe it was stolen between 3:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. Friday, when museum guards noticed that it was missing and alerted police.

She says police have launched an intensive search. She says there are currently no suspects but police are pursuing several theories.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: auschwitz; wwii
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1 posted on 12/18/2009 12:04:59 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246

police are pursuing several theories.

Maybe they will catch one.


2 posted on 12/18/2009 12:06:30 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Grzegorz 246

Wasn’t obama just in europe?


3 posted on 12/18/2009 12:09:32 AM PST by mirkwood (Palin-Bachmann 2012)
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To: Grzegorz 246

Extremely important historical object. Would probably end up in a WWII collection belonging to someone.


4 posted on 12/18/2009 12:10:19 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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To: Grzegorz 246

Check the local mosques.


6 posted on 12/18/2009 12:11:43 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar
I've been asking this since the mid 90s, when is Europe going to care about the muslim takeover?
7 posted on 12/18/2009 12:13:44 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Obama staffers took it to present to their Muslim boss today.

I hear he wants to put it on top of the entrance to the planned mosqueument that is going to be placed on the site of the old National Cathedral.


8 posted on 12/18/2009 12:17:05 AM PST by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: sonofstrangelove

True, a unique souvenir of the infamous era. But for the same reason the new owner could never talk about it.


10 posted on 12/18/2009 12:42:29 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America.)
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To: Morgana

Nothing comes up when I try.


11 posted on 12/18/2009 12:44:02 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I agree.


12 posted on 12/18/2009 12:44:55 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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To: sonofstrangelove

Unless some deadbeat drug addict sells it as scrap metal to a scrap dealer. I don’t know if they have a big problem with that in Europe, but in the US it would have a big chance of getting melted down as scrap. The dealers don’t ask any questions, and since they couldn’t sell it on eBay without the police coming to arrest them, they’d figure they might as well melt it down and get $10 out of it.


13 posted on 12/18/2009 1:00:32 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

I don’t think that they will melt it down.Its going to end up in someone’s private collection.


14 posted on 12/18/2009 1:03:58 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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To: sonofstrangelove

The Poles will prolly have a new one made for display purposes at the site.

It’s interesting to me that it was even possible to filch the sign. Wouldn’t the site draw enough ire from those whose families perished in concentration camps that it would need to be carefully watched to prevent vandalism? Maybe some really pi$$ed off Jew really has had the durn thing melted down.


15 posted on 12/18/2009 1:20:57 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America.)
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To: Grzegorz 246
Police: Auschwitz 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign stolen

No worries. Obama will return it after he's gotten his own made up for us.

16 posted on 12/18/2009 4:15:49 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

If I’m not mistaken, this was not the original sign, but a replica put up by the Polish government back in the 60’s or 70’s.


17 posted on 12/18/2009 4:49:22 AM PST by rotstan
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18 posted on 12/18/2009 5:47:31 AM PST by SJackson (In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.)
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To: Caipirabob

That was my first thought.


19 posted on 12/18/2009 6:05:04 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: SJackson

My girlfriend was a volunteer docent there back in the 80’s. She used to take groups of people around and show them the horrors of the place. I thought it was fairly well maintained and guarded at the time.

Perhaps things have changed.....


20 posted on 12/18/2009 6:19:30 AM PST by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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