Cops find stolen Auschwitz sign

21st December 2009

Police arrest Auschwitz sign thieves

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Polish police have recovered the Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign stolen from the site of the Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland and arrested the alleged thieves.

"We have arrested five men aged from 20 to 39 in the north of Poland. The recovered sign has been cut up into three pieces," Dariusz Nowak, spokesman for the police in southern Krakow, told AFP.

Two of the men were arrested in a car in the northern port of Gdynia, where ships depart for Germany, Lithuania, the US, Britain (Hull and Felixstowe) and China. The third at his home in Wloclawek.

The sign was found buried in woods in Czernikowie near Torun.

Learning of the sign's recovery, Pawel Sawicki, a spokesperso ...

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