The "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign theft from Oswiecim, Poland

Maybe they will put a polish sign instead to show that Oswiecim camp was polish.

Have you seen this?

Quote:
"Avner Shalev, director of Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, said the theft "constitutes a true declaration of war".

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8420053.stm

Precision? One end was unscrewed the other end was just ripped away. It was done fairly quick. A prank.. a daring one.. but just a prank. Now Poland has to listen to bullsh.t from Israel for two or three weeks.

Now it's Poland vs Israel??? ;)

No....wait...it must read Germany vs Israel! It was a german camp after all..

The Polish Government took the sign because government workers are so lazy, and this will be a reminder for them...Put it up in front of some Bureau.

Bratwurst Boy

It's a serious incident, but still I find the reactions coming from Israel quite a bit over the top, I must admit.

What would be the polish expression for "Arbeit macht frei" ?


Just crass! :(
It isn't Polands nor anybody elses fault...

''Kurwa.''

You have a point.


i think it was vs Neo-Nazis in general.

Personally i was always amazed at the fact that they did'nt charge for entry, its a donation system. As it should be, did Poland have an agreement or grant in place for this as i cant imagine them not taking revenue from a international attraction like that.

I really hope Poland doesnt profit from the camp. As i said before a Golem for the theives..

Na Zdrowie!

Yeah...."Kurwa Na Zdrowie"...sure...

Sorry for my translation but they are basically saying it was planned.


Well that is of course debatable. When I first came to Poland 8 years ago, it was Poland's biggest tourist destination, flights, hotels, restaurants etc... all made money of the tourists.

But it being free for visitors means the maintenance money comes from somewhere else.
it is all on that thread about Norway donating, I can't remember off hand.

I didn't think about that. They can replace it with a replica. They should have had the replica on it in the first place, maybe?

They have already, while they keep looking.

Wouldn't it be something if they did, in fact, forget to remove the replica and the people who stole it think they have the real thing when it isn't?

In connection with the event today to announce that for any information that will help you to find the stolen inscription " Arbeit macht frei" Director of the Auschwitz -Birkenau designated prize totaling 100 thousand . zł - informed the Auschwitz- Birkenau .

Those interested in submitting relevant information please contact us immediately with the police throughout the country - said in a statement.


There is a third copy in a holocaust museum in the U.S. too.

What's that in Euros?

PLN, Zloty, Polish money.

Although that figure is just from the Police, the security company and the museum, so I imagine it will rise substantially very soon.

I know that Seanie! ;)

I was interested in the exchange with Euros...

Scrappy, are you sure it's a prank?

Yea, they become a footnote. Ask someone about the Thirty Years' War and see what kind of response you get.

By now it's prolly been smuggled out of Poland and is who knows where? Could even be on another continent. All they had to do was put it in a box and ship it.

I don't understand you?


The First Reich: The Holy Roman Empire (800/962 - 1806)
The Second Reich: The German Empire (1871 - 1918)
The Third Reich: Nazi Germany (1933 - 1945)

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This type of thing makes me think that Neo-Nazis want a forth Reich.
Again I wish to remind everyone this is purely speculative and just my opinion.

I doubt if it was a Polish commissioned thieft, if it was planned but no doubt there will be a lot of Polish hate propaganda in the up and coming weeks.

The sooner the thieves are caught the better as this is one of those frustrating 'Political' mud throwing sensationalist pieces of news.


I would imagine so as the hunt continues and the population of Poland wants it returned.
But if it were just some stupid people, well then they should be caught soon enough or they'll leave it somewhere for the police to take it back, I would not like to be them right now.

They catch a lot of fine art thieves at the sale end of things, perhaps these guys will make their mistake there, if they do not already have a buyer. Again all this is pure speculation.

He wanted to know the exchange rate EUR/Zloty.

Ah, yes, I misread, I thought he wrote


My bad, I should have known BB is too bright for that.

Today
1 Polish zloty = 0.2382 Euros according to Google, so 115000 PLN reward is about 27393 Euros.

The worst thing that could happen, they take it, ship it someplace, and it goes into storage. It would be harder to find it that way.

One thing, useless moronic scumbags! (thoose who stole it ofcourse)
They should have taken the replica and put it up there!! Thoose were NOT professionals! Most probably some scumbags who wants some fun I say...

Yes, I agree...just put the replica on the fence and put the real one in safe keeping.

Yeah there ya' go.. probably not a lot of money for security cameras either.

Probably Polish dudes getting a little vodka in them. However, I think it's in the news a lot in Poland of Israeli school kids going on school trips there and wiping feces all over hotel rooms basically acting the fool while they're in the country. Maybe this is retaliation.. who knows?