Poland to send prisoners to Auschwitz for 'shock therapy'

8th May 2009

“It is intended to show convicts what the disappearance of all moral and social norms can lead to,"

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Authorities in southern Poland are to send prisoners to Auschwitz concentration camp as part of a “shock therapy” programme intended to stop them re-offending.

Authorities in southern Poland are to send prisoners to Auschwitz concentration camp as part of a “shock therapy” programme intended to stop them re-offending.

The museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau said that it had agreed to convicts visiting the camp as part of their rehabilitation process.

The unusual guests, all of whom will be volunteers at first and serving only light sentences, will get a guided tour of Auschwitz and attend films and lectures on the crimes committed at a camp that claimed an estimated 1.5 million lives. ...

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