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Monday, January 4, 2010

British and Swedish Neo-Nazis behind Theft


Speculations over who actually commissioned the theft of the infamous Auschwitz death camp sign have been going on for weeks and Polish prosecutors early said that a trail leads to Sweden. On Sunday, the British tabloid Sunday Mirror published a story that confirms that suspicion.

According to the Sunday Mirror, it was a wealthy British Nazi sympathizer who commissioned last month's theft of the infamous entrance sign to the former Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland. Quoting an unnamed source, the tabloid also reports that the plan had been to ship the sign to a group of Swedish neo-Nazis, who would keep it in a cellar in Stockholm until they could transfer it to the British collector.

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