Auschwitz Sign Stolen To Fund 'Terror Attacks'

London Times :

The Nazi gang that ordered the theft of the infamous 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign from the gates of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland planned to sell it to fund violent attacks against the Swedish Prime Minister and Parliament, it was claimed today.

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Comments

[mudshark12]

01:17 PM on 12/27/2009

The sign has been recovered (in 3 pieces) and five people were arrested. If found guilty they could be subject to up to 10 years in jail to reflect on their stupidity. The original sign will be re-erected. In the meanwhile a replica is there in its place. In other words these five idiots accomplished.....nothing.

While I never liked that sign, I feel along with millions of other people, that it needs to be left there so future generations will learn about what happened there (and elsewhere) to the victims of the Nazi holocaust. This is EVIDENCE that there horrendous crimes DID happen and can't be DENIED.

[MJinCanada]

09:24 PM on 12/26/2009

One really has to wonder who would want such a sign.

But I'm guessing it's either the guy who's got the Code of Hammurabi, stolen from the National Museum in Iraq, or a close friend.

I'd love to be able to check the secret basement rooms of Cheney's closest billionaire buds.

[dex216]

08:44 PM on 12/26/2009

I wonder what the far left would think if the culprits were Muslims?

[Schmaltzy the Golem]

05:11 AM on 12/27/2009

Probably not as miserable as the right is, in finding out that they weren't.

[Thabit]

11:56 AM on 12/27/2009

Actually i thought it had been stolen by Israelis to hang over the main entrance to Gaza

[dex216]

02:37 PM on 12/27/2009

Yeah, because Palestinians are being worked to death, their skin's being made into lampshades, and they're being sent to gas chambers (rolls eyes)

[juicyju]

03:36 PM on 12/27/2009

I thought it was stolen by you to hang over your bedroom door.

[pomegrante]

08:30 PM on 12/26/2009

cliffhammond, please keep posting. YOU are loved.

[Schmaltzy the Golem]

05:15 AM on 12/27/2009

Yes. I also love this decrepit hacks insensitive antisemitism.

[juicyju]

03:34 PM on 12/27/2009

loved...by Satan!

[mikebarden]

03:32 PM on 12/26/2009

FlyLeaf
Perfect

[ron071]

11:33 AM on 12/26/2009

A good deal of sickness has been released by this sick act. Just read some of these commentaries to realize how many sickos are out and about.

[kilgore trout]

05:55 PM on 12/26/2009

Agreed. Out of the woodwork they come.

[juicyju]

03:35 PM on 12/27/2009

agreed.

[juicyju]

09:26 PM on 12/25/2009

You know, I'm sorry if I've made any offhanded comments about this post.
That sign is a tombstone for a million Jews people, have some respect.

[nexxtep54]

12:58 PM on 12/27/2009

There are tombstones all over the world, and memorials, and constant reminders. If you want to rally against genocide, start with the ongoing ones in Africa.

[juicyju]

03:34 PM on 12/27/2009

You go first.

[nexxtep54]

12:48 PM on 12/25/2009

Jeeeeez, society is getting dumber. Car stereo's are way easier to pawn than Nazi Concentration Camp signs.

[Gripen]

04:01 PM on 12/25/2009

he guys that stoel the sign has connections and had a buyer, some excentric collector.

They needed big money fast and did soemthign they was thinking was easier then hijack and rob armoured cars as they usually do.

[UncleJimbo]

11:39 AM on 12/25/2009

These guys were just following the advice of the Sign! ....They Arbeited and Made Frei with the Sign!

[4KixAfter6]

11:23 AM on 12/25/2009

I guess it could make an interesting conversation piece, but where would you hang it?

[cliffhammond]

04:00 PM on 12/25/2009

Like so many others have suggested, I'd hang it over the main entrance to the Fed.

[ron071]

11:30 AM on 12/26/2009

CliffHammond has a very long hate list to which he adheres at every sick opportunity. Hopefully, he will recover his balance at some future date.

[johnnyfarout]

03:04 PM on 12/27/2009

If it was hung over the Fed, it was have to reflect current realities...and be changed to ... "Work Makes Debt."

[barrycourage]

05:21 AM on 12/25/2009

Well.

There goes my Jello mold theory.

Hmmmph!

[nexxtep54]

01:06 PM on 12/25/2009

HAH !!

[andycan]

03:33 AM on 12/25/2009

Notice the subtle Art Deco inflection in the sign?

[barrycourage]

02:10 PM on 12/25/2009

Fascism chic.

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

03:04 AM on 12/25/2009

This caper has the stink of a dumb criminal about it. It reminds me of some jerk burglar who gets stuck in a chimney. But then, while the NAZIS were some of the cruelest cultists to ever walk the earth, many of them were also dumber that a box of rocks.

[cliffhammond]

04:06 PM on 12/25/2009

Kind of like the guys we trained to interrogate prisoners with a memo from John Yoo in their pockets.

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

04:52 PM on 12/25/2009

Yes, Imagine a dinner party with Ernst Röhm, Rudolph Hess and our American torturers. They would all be so simpatico and gemûtlich.

[EuroMom]

06:27 PM on 12/26/2009

Unfortunately, many of them were not as dumb as a box of rocks. That's precisely what made them so dangerous

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

09:10 PM on 12/26/2009

Yes, some were smart, but I think people like Röhm and Hess were dumb and delusional respectively. In America, we have long had the same type of people in such groups as the KKK and the Neo-Nazis. Of course, the German NAZIS had some very smart and calculating leaders. Remember, I called them "some of the cruelest cultists to ever walk the earth.

[raker]

09:26 PM on 12/24/2009

Sign Felled.

[UncleJimbo]

11:42 AM on 12/25/2009

Very Good!..... I'll Fan That as a Seinfeld Reference! Ha!

[Tom Joad]

08:42 PM on 12/24/2009

WTF? did they think they could sell it on eBay or something?

"Where'd you get this sign?"

"um...we found it..no, no, we made it ourselves..."

well, 'here's your sign....'

[Gripen]

05:24 AM on 12/25/2009

They had a buyer, some collector, rumours say he was american.

[4KixAfter6]

11:00 AM on 12/25/2009

The RNC.

[cliffhammond]

04:09 PM on 12/25/2009

I heard that under Chinie-chin-chinie we had some pretty nice interment camps going up ourselves to "detain" all the right people.