What's with these right-wing left wing neo-Nazis denying the Holocaust? Stealing the 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign is worse enough.
Posted on 12/18/2009 9:45:07 PM PST by myknowledge
The slickly organised theft of one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust sent a wave of outrage around the world yesterday.
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.
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What's with these right-wing left wing neo-Nazis denying the Holocaust? Stealing the 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign is worse enough.
To walk up and do something like this...which would take a bit of effort....you’d really have to know the operation there. I don’t think it was the Nazis. I suspect it was disenchanted staff members taking out frustrations on the management.
Face it...what do you with a sign like this? You can’t show to anyone or the word gets out with the cops finding out. The logic of some Nazis stealing it for “show”...I find issues with.
Who else would want this but neo-Nazi types? An unfortunate incident that removes a valuable piece of history.
“The theft in the early hours of yesterday was seen as an attempt by right-wing extremists to muddy the narrative of the Holocaust.”
That makes perfect sense. After all, if you can steal the object in question you automatically re-write history. E.g., if Southern Nationalists somehow stole the Lincoln Memorial, then Southerners would have more ammo in their attempt to convince people that we won the war. Brilliant.
This entire piece reads like some Orwellian satire piece.
If someone really wanted to “muddy” the narrative of the Holocaust they would have stolen the fake unattached chimney that is part of the late 1940’s Soviet reconstruction at Auschwitz.
“The theft in the early hours of yesterday was seen as an attempt by right-wing extremists to muddy the narrative of the Holocaust.”
By the way, would Ahmadinejad be one of the “right-wing” extremists trying to muddy the Holocaust? Who knew.
Amazing that there is one country in the World that officially questions the Holocaust...one religion in the World that openly questions it...but there is no discussion here of Muslims/Iranians being responsible. They automatically know it was “right-wingers.”
To a hardcore history buff—a sick one without a conscience—it would be worth big, big money.
“To a hardcore history buff—a sick one without a conscience—it would be worth big, big money.”
It would be a tad bit conspicuous don’t you think?
But that sign, 'Work Sets You Free' is the mantra of Marxists. So I'd be looking under the other 'wing' for the culprits.
Is poverty so bad that someone might try to melt it down and sell it?
Some articles say it is bronze, others state it is cast iron, I was curious if there was much copper content to it.
so just put up a replica.
if they don’t do that, then this was an inside job.
SURELY they did not steal it, to sell as SCRAP! Auschwitz is not DETROIT, after all! LOL.
Basically, even though they don't believe it happened, they wish it did and they would like to make a new one. Clear enough?
It is so hard to imagine someone stealing it to sell to collectors of Nazi memorabilia.....
>>SURELY they did not steal it, to sell as SCRAP!
Whoever stole it could make a fortune selling small pieces of it.
I mean, for SICK.
The Nazis were left-wing extremists.
After 60 years, you'd think all those big-brained certified journalists might get that correct.
Unless... gasp... they're deliberately switching the terms!
Nah...
Not in a private vault. Moving it would have been the issue, but money makes all things possible.
The Nazis were left-wing extremists.
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