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Symbolic "Arbeit Macht Frei" Gate Stolen From Dachau
If "work set you free" in the Nazi concentration camps of WWII, then it appears in this consequence-less society in which we live, stealing is the new normal. As CBS reports, 5 years after a Swedish neo-Nazi was found gulity of stealing the symbolic concentration camp sign from Auschwitz; a wrought-iron gate bearing the Nazis' cynical slogan "Arbeit macht frei," or "Work sets you free," has been stolen from the former Dachau concentration camp, police said Sunday. "The theft of such a symbolic object is an offensive attack on the memory of the Holocaust," said Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.
Security officials noticed early Sunday morning that the gate measuring 75 by 37 inches -- set into a larger iron gate -- was missing, police said in a statement. Whoever stole it during the night would have had to climb over another gate to reach it, they added.
Police said they found nothing in the immediate vicinity of the camp and appealed for anyone who noticed any suspicious people or vehicles to come forward.
Dachau, near Munich, was the first concentration camp set up by the Nazis in 1933. More than 200,000 people from across Europe were held there and over 40,000 prisoners died before it was liberated by U.S. forces on April 29, 1945. The camp is now a memorial.
Memorial director Gabriele Hammermann condemned the theft of the gate, which she described as "the central symbol for the prisoners' ordeal," news agency dpa reported.
She said a private security service supervises the site but officials had decided against surveillance of the former camp with video cameras because they didn't want to turn it into a "maximum-security unit." That decision may now have to be reviewed, she added.
A blog posted by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial wrote that "while we do not know who is behind the theft of the sign, the theft of such a symbolic object is an offensive attack on the memory of the Holocaust."
In December 2009, the infamous "Arbeit macht frei" sign that spanned the main gate of the Auschwitz death camp, built by the Nazis in occupied Poland, was stolen. Police found it three days later cut into pieces in a forest on the other side of Poland.
A Swedish man who had a neo-Nazi past was found guilty of instigating that theft and jailed in his homeland. Five Poles also were convicted of involvement and imprisoned.
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I am not amazed that people remember the "holocost" this long.
There are at least 4 movies a year about it, maybe more.
+1 but I can't/won't afford to go to movies.
You're joking right?
How can anyone ever forget this when they're reminded 24/7 365 days a year of that? You're not supposed to forget!
MOST IMPORTANTLY. YOU ARE NEVER SUPPOSED TO SECOND GUESS AND ASK QUESTIONS.
If you do so publicly, you will be tared, feathered and quartered first verbally and then probably incarcerated for good measure.
It's funny how this "ethnic" group of people could survive all these alleged "progroms" against them and not only that, they managed to amass and control nearly all the wealth in the West at least.
Either they're the luckiest people who ever lived or their entire history is based on bullshit and lies to intimidate everyone else and always come out ahead in every fucking argument.
Another thing. Turds always float on top. Remember that.
Wherever you travel in Europe, from Norway to Croatia, from Belorussia to Belgium you'll be inundated with memorials to how the region's Jews were taken by the Germans to (name concentration camp of choice) where they were all gassed.
Now one thing has always bothered me about this. If the Germans wanted to kill all the Jews why didn't they just shoot them in situ? Why use desperately scarce rolling stock and fuel to carry them across the length and breadth of Europe just to kill them in a concentration camp?
I have yet to come across anything that even remotely resembles a plausabile explanation.
what man learns from history is that man never learns from history!
"I'm amazed that people were able to remember the holocaust this long. "
Could be something to do with the fact that about 10 films, 20 books and 10,000 TV programs have been shoved down our throats on the subject every year since about 1950.
Hillary's 2016 Campaign Slogan: Hitlery Macht Frei
She has been cultivating a moustache.
This is an outrage! My Bubbe built those gates with her own weak and dying hands. She even cleverly built in the Seal of Solomon into the two doors. When she was done the evil Nazis gassed her and burned her in one of the ovens
My Uncle Yitzak said there is a rumor that the Israeli's took both signs from the camps and they will put them at the 2 border crossings at Gaza that have been sealed off permanently. The soldiers have allegedly been joking once you go in you can't get out. Just like the gates to hell
http://rt.com/news/201579-israel-gaza-border-crossing/
Maybe Israel should crash planes into the twin towers....O wait... they already did that.
http://rt.com/news/201239-israel-cartoonist-netanyahu-september11/
Bet that Israelis stole it to hang in some palestinian camp. You know how jews don´t like spending on stuff they can get free....
It wasn't stolen. FEMA is duplicating it.
An American, not US subject.
It's headed to Palestine.
I can just imagine the tune from the movie THE GREAT ESCAPE playing while they heisted that gate...
you magnificent ba$tards!
Jewish holocaust never happened. Not even a single jew was gassed.
For those with doubts about doubting, the following link has Jewish Hollywood movie director Billy Wilder filming a Holocaust documentary in Germany at Buchenwald BEFORE the war even ended. He is LITERALLY giving direction to a starving man he is filming. Watch it and believe, or disbelieve:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJFvDQwDKFw
And to top it off, Wilder and his office continuously lied about his whereabouts during the time-frame that he was assisting in making this Holocaust pychop film.
Leads to a troubling question: If the Holocaust were real, why did the Allied side have, and implement, a misinformation plan, and film, the making of which was covered up.?
Also Weisenthal has told so many lies that even the Jewish press has had to acknowledge them.
http://www.thejc.com/comment/columnists/it-right-expose-wiesenthal
Yes Jews were targeted, and killed, but so were many others that don't now have their own country and near complete control of the DC US and the rest of the west.
A non "return" able American, not US subject.
"To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it [or what] that I am not permitted to criticize"
Just look who all the Billionaires are and you will see which parasites are ruling you...
Wir sind so geshtup.
"a wrought-iron gate bearing the Nazis' cynical slogan "Arbeit macht frei," or "Work sets you free," has been stolen from the former Dachau concentration camp, "
No worries! It's been located and repatriated with the ones that made it all possible then and now!
It's at the entrance to the jersey walls that surround Gaza! You should see the slogans in Hebrew being built for all the other cul de sac(s) that contribute to that largest of open air prisons?!!!
Brought to you by the same people that did the U.S.S. Liberty, 9/11, 7/7 and endorse Nazis in Ukraine to bankrupt and run an illegitimate military style junta run by a chocolate Zionist calling it the "city of Bandera"who publically endorses them and that anyone who is Russian to "die or leave" in an attempt to launch perpetual wars without end in order to "fire sale" the entire planet!
Yeah same guys!
A socialist motto if ever there was one
You have a problem with Socialism?
PUNK...
the holocaust is a goddamned satanic lie!! it didn't happen. it was a lie fabricated by ziocon jews before world war1, tried at the end of world 1, and tried again at the end of world war 2 when it finally stuck. there is NO forensic evidence to support it. NONE! there was no final solution.
the so-called concentration camps were work camps whose population of jews was no greater than that found in the general populations of germany and eastern europe. the germans, desperate for workers to maintain industrial output, were not about to go on a murdering spree of anyone. the allegations of a german holcaust are the most vile, repugnant, filthy lies in all of history.
the satanic weisenthal center and that lie factory steven spielberg runs to perpetuate the holcaust hoax have documented phoney stories and ever more twisted lies. these holocaust lies make me sick.
the only mass murders related to world war 2 came from the ussr which was ruled 70-90% by jews.
Undoubtedly true but the whole Holocau$t industry must represent the greatest marketing coup in world history. http://irishsavant.blogspot.ie/2014/06/the-greatest-brand-that-ever-was....
it may get me aman mossad killed saying this but most of these things are psychological operations.
tavistock mi6,cia and mossad are world leaders in this re enforce ing the meme kosher shit
It's on loan , you can see it in Gaza!!
Sign over Obamaica - "EBT Makes You Free"...
CBS...
Chosenites Brainwashing Sheeple....
I always thought that it said "Arbys Makes Fries".
"Arbeit macht Frei" - Hitler and his political party
"kein Arbeit macht Frei" - Obama and his political party.
you had me at "offensive attack on the memory of the Holocaust"