Neo-Nazis suspected of raid on Auschwitz ‘to rewrite history’

Times Online ^ | December 19, 2009

[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.

[Talisker]

The original name was the “German Workers Party” in 1919, they added the “National Socialist” afterwards.

I didn't know that, but it doesn't seem to matter concerning the connection of Nazism with socialism, unless the 1919 name somehow represented a non- a socialist party - which I'm sure it didn't.

Auschwitz had a sign that said "Work Makes You Free" - so what?

[editor-surveyor]

"To me, there is the personal sovereignty acknowledged as pre-existing in human beings by the American Constitution..."

And that is what we have allowed to be renamed 'capitalism' but its really just freedom.

[Talisker]

And that is what we have allowed to be renamed 'capitalism' but its really just freedom.

Indeed - that is truly the root of vast disinformation by the enemy.