Posted on 11/02/2014 12:16:19 PM PST by Dallas59
BERLIN (AP) — 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.
Security officials noticed early Sunday morning that the gate measuring 190 by 95 centimeters (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.
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How does one steal one of the most famous gates in the world? There are no cameras there?
Apparently not. Maybe now there will be.
Satanists.
Maybe done by anti-Semites that deny the existence of the Holocuast. They’ll now say, “What gate? To what extermination camp? Show me where it is!”
Hoping they catch the b**tards who did this. Put Mossad on the case.
They’ll put some bling on it and mount it over the front door of the White House.
Probably not. I really think the Germans would like it if places like Dachau and Sachsenhausen and the other camps in Germany would just go away. I thought ‘’ Arbeit Macht Frei’’ meant “Work Makes Freedom’’.
Neo-NAZIs. Scum.
ISIS wants to copy and distribute that sort of gate for all of their newly conquered lands. China, as always, will be able to make a perfect copy.
Check ISIS. They are stealing everything else the Nazi’s had.
AFL-CIO probably has it.
When I visited Auschwitz you could still see the double fences that had once carried boatloads of electricity. Maybe they can fire those puppies up again, to help curtail theft. Unless Dachau doesn’t have the electrified fences.
“AFL-CIO probably has it.”
My money is on FEMA.
What would you do with it??? Can’t set it up in the front yard for the neighbors to admire. Can’t keep it in your house for fear a plumber, appliance repairman, etc., might see it someday and turn you in. No, I think this is absolute proof Adolf Hitler didn’t die in that bunker afterall!
It’d be hard to fence.
The Satanic Nazis took a saying from the Middle Ages and applied it to their death camps. Originally, if a peasant serf could find work for a year in a city, then he was free of the feudal obligations to his lord and could continue to live there.
Could turn up on the wall of somebody’s dorm room at UMass.
collector sale on the black market
My money is on the IRS
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