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Nazi Habit
An obsessive Nazi collector has been ordered to take down a replica of the sign over the Auschwitz death camp saying "Work Will Set You Free" from his garden gate.
The sign - 'Arbeit Macht Frei' in German - was seen by millions of Jewish inmates before they were gassed, beaten or worked to death.
Now town hall officials in Rychvald, Czech Republic, have ordered a local historian to remove the sign after receiving hundreds of complaints.
Mayor Ladislav Sitko: "I don't normally tell people what they can and can't do in their own gardens. But many people see this as an insult to the people who died there.
"Lots of people have house name plates, but this is on another level."
The collector - unnamed in local media - refused to comment but his wife said: "It's a lot of fuss about nothing. My husband is a collector of World War II items, not a Nazi."
Austrian Times
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edward wrote on 03. 12. 2011 from South Africa about "Nazi Habit..."
Of course, most people still are mistakenly under the impression that millions died in gas chambers at Auschwitz (never mind that Auschwitz officially reduced the death toll in 1990 from 4 million down to 1,5 million of ALL persons interned there, and due to all reasons, including old age, diseases, etc. Hence the exaggerated reaction to the sign, even though Auschwitz was certainly not a pleasant place to be, to put it mildly. Most likely, these were the complaints of one or two uninformed persons. Regarding Auschwitz, the words of celebrated survivor Primo Levi, says it best in his book on his experiences there: "...in any case, the important thing for the camp is NOT that the most useless prisoners be eliminated..." Primo (a Polish Jew) makes other similar statements contradicting entirely the standard exterminationists view of Auschwitz, such as the fact that he could never understand why "those selected for the gas chambers due to their frail health, were given double-rations for two or three days, sometimes much longer." Obviously,the intention was not to gas them. Nevertheless, I appreciate the fact that the sign might upset certain persons, and it is insensitive on the owners part to display the sign in such a visible manner.
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karl gray wrote on 02. 12. 2011 from uk about "Nazi Habit..."
"Hundreds of complaints" I think not........more like one or two of the chosen few
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