Police recover stolen Auschwitz sign

Polish police said early Monday they have recovered the Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign stolen from the site of the Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland and arrested the alleged thieves."We have arrested five men aged from 20 to 39 in the north of Poland. The recovered sign has been cut up into three pieces," Dariusz Nowak, spokesman for the police in southern Krakow, told AFP."They were picked up shortly before midnight and the sign was found in a house," he added without giving further details.

Polish police said early Monday they have recovered the Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign stolen from the site of the Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland and arrested the alleged thieves."We have arrested five men aged from 20 to 39 in the north of Poland. The recovered sign has been cut up into three pieces," Dariusz Nowak, spokesman for the police in southern Krakow, told AFP.The suspects have no links to neo-Nazi groups, Polish police said on Monday.

Polish police said early Monday they have recovered the Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign stolen Friday from the site of the Auschwitz death camp.

Polish police Saturday stepped up border checks as they intensified the hunt for thieves who stole the infamous Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign from the Auschwitz death camp.Road blocks were in place across the southern Polish region, while around 40 officers and forensic experts were mobilised to gather evidence at the camp itself, said regional police spokesman Dariusz Nowak.Poland has sought the help of the international policing bodies Interpol and Europol to try to track down the criminals, he said.

BERLIN — A 93-year-old man who was deported from the U.S. for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities Monday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said. Hans Lipschis was taken into custody after authorities concluded there was “compelling evidence” he was involved in crimes at Auschwitz while there from 1941 to 1945, prosecutor Claudia Krauth said.

Looking at old photographs, Eli Rubenstein can spot the ways in which the historic Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp has fallen victim to the passage of time. Mr. Rubenstein, who leads educational tours of the site every year, has watched over 25 years as more and more derelict structures have been made unavailable to the public for safety reasons.

Polish police Saturday were hunting for thieves who stole the infamous Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign from the entrance to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, sparking outrage around the world.The sign, which means "Work Will Set You Free", came to symbolise the horror of the camp where some 1.1 million mainly Jewish prisoners died during World War II, some from overwork and starvation but most in the gas chambers.

Poland said Thursday it had formally asked Sweden for help in its probe of the theft of the infamous Nazi German "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the former Auschwitz death camp."We sent the Swedish justice ministry a request for judicial assistance by mail and fax," prosecutor's office spokeswoman Boguslawa Marcinkowska told AFP.She declined to elaborate.Last week, Polish investigators said the mastermind of the theft -- which sent shockwaves around the world -- lived abroad.