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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: auschwitz; wwii
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To: Grzegorz 246; CougarGA7

I thought the prop my manager used at our last “team building” exercise looked familiar.


21 posted on 12/18/2009 6:21:40 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: Grzegorz 246

Soros


22 posted on 12/18/2009 6:23:52 AM PST by stboz
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To: Grzegorz 246
"Arbeit Macht Frei" — German for "Work Sets You Free" — has been stolen.

Holocaust deniers ?

The Prince of Persia ?

Ahmedinejad ?

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
23 posted on 12/18/2009 7:18:13 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: Grzegorz 246

Obama needed to make a copy.


24 posted on 12/18/2009 7:18:42 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“But for the same reason the new owner could never talk about it.”

Look nice next to the original Mona Lisa he has.


25 posted on 12/18/2009 7:19:59 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Cronos; maryz; FreeStateYank; Velveeta; Cheap_Hessian; paythefiddler; mstar; se99tp; AdvisorB; ...
Eastern European ping list

FRmail me to be added or removed from this Eastern European ping list

26 posted on 12/18/2009 10:52:23 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: rotstan

Nope, it’s the original, cast by the prisoners.

“Poland declares state of emergency after ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ stolen from Auschwitz”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/18/auschwitz-arbeit-macht-frei-sign
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410634/posts


27 posted on 12/18/2009 11:37:42 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Grzegorz 246

That sign now hangs in the Lincoln bedroom.


28 posted on 12/18/2009 1:22:54 PM PST by exnavy (God save the republic)
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To: Grzegorz 246

I’m so sad to learn of this theft. The sign is a reminder that things can be so much worse for the entire world. I truly hope someone is brave enough to blow the whistle on the thieves.

‘Face


29 posted on 12/18/2009 1:38:26 PM PST by Monkey Face (I wear a yellow ribbon for ForgotenKnight my army hero and Anoreth warrior goddess of the Coast)
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To: Grzegorz 246; ntnychik; potlatch; devolve; FARS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER
On the day I receive from my friend the gift of Mark Steyn, Lights Out: Islam, free speech and the twilight of the west.

After Iran has tested its missile.

After yet a newer update is released on Iran's building the essential activator for its bomb.

After we have allowed an Islamo-Commie sleeper to burrow into the most powerful position on earth.

After an Army major can give a six-month advance notice of his intent to mass-murder infidels to promote jihad.

Israel is public enemy number one of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy team, not Putin's Russia, nor repressive China.

It is a Sign of the Times.

30 posted on 12/18/2009 3:41:41 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: PhilDragoo

I think of Steyn as a light in the darkness.
Where there’s light there’s hope (the genuine kind).


31 posted on 12/18/2009 4:56:50 PM PST by ntnychik
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To: ntnychik
Roger that.

He's a lighthouse.

Hey, don't crash into this.

32 posted on 12/18/2009 5:11:52 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: Grzegorz 246
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.

VERY SAD...

STE=Q

33 posted on 12/18/2009 6:01:25 PM PST by STE=Q ("It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government" ... Thomas Paine)
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To: PhilDragoo

SYMPATHY FOR A ZERO
Sung to the tune of SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (no disrespect meant for Mick & Keith)

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I’m a man of stealth and race
I’ve been around for a short, short time
Hid my past at the fastest pace

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Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Israel
was thrown into a murderous fate

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Hope is my refrain
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my change

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and Iran when they tried for a change
Filled the Czars they’re so sinister
Constitution screamed in vain

I stole the banks
with a Chairman’s rank
When depression raged
And the Fed it stank

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Hope is my refrain, oh yeah
Ah, what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my change, oh yeah
(wee wee, wee wee)

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When my unions reigned
Ruined the ten decades
Of the cars they made
(who who, who who)

I shouted out,
“Who killed the Energy?”
When after all
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(who who, who who)

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I’m a man of stealth and race
And I laid tax for carbon doors
That get killed before they reached Bombay
(woo woo, who who)

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Hope is my refrain, oh yeah
(who who)
But what’s puzzling you
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(guess who, guess who)

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Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
(woo woo, who who)

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And all my motives feints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
‘Cause I’m in need of huge restraint
(wee wee, wee wee)

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Have some brutality
Have some viciousness, put me in chains
(yea who)
Use all your saved hostilities
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste, mmm yeah
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Are you sick of my refrain, mmm yeah
(who who)
But what angers you
Is the nature of my change, mmm mean it, get down
(woo woo, woo woo)

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Oh yeah
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(woo woo)

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Call me Barry, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, Barak’s my name
I tell you one time, you’re to blame

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woo, woo
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Woo, woo
Woo, who, who
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Oh, yeah

What’s my name
Tell me, baby, Barak’s my name
Tell me, sweetie, what’s my name

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Oh, yeah
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Woo woo


34 posted on 12/19/2009 10:19:59 AM PST by BOBTHENAILER ( EPA will rule your life)
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To: Grzegorz 246

I think you should send the blasted thing to Berlin and make the Germans look at it every day. I’m just saying...


35 posted on 12/22/2009 10:08:36 AM PST by Camel Joe ("All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others"- The Pigs)
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