In the former Nazi concentration camp Dachau was stolen piece of iron gate with the inscription “Arbeit macht frei” – informed the police. Theft security staff noticed in the morning; it probably occurred during the night.
Shortly before midnight, iron doors were still in place.
Police said that there was nothing in the area of the former camp. She appealed for information to anyone who noticed suspicious person near the vehicles.
stolen fragment, which is part of the great gate, measures approximately 190 cm by 95 cm. Police say the perpetrator or perpetrators of; does not exclude that the gate was used to export the vehicle.
Dachau near Munich in Bavaria was the first permanent concentration camp created by the Nazis after coming January 30, 1933 Hitler came to power. The camp was the testing ground and model for other concentration camps created by the Nazis in Germany and other parts of Europe.
Initially, the camp at Dachau was intended for Hitler’s political opponents – primarily Communists and Social Democrats. Later in the camp were imprisoned priests, Jews, Roma and Russian prisoners of war. At the end of the war the largest group of prisoners were Poles.
During the twelve years of the camp and its sub-camps over a total of over 200 thousand. people from all occupied by the German Reich in Europe, including Polish. After the attack on Poland in September 1939, Dachau was transported 13 thousand. Polish prisoners. Deported to the Dachau also part of Polish scientists who were arrested in November 1939 in Krakow. For the liberation of the camp by the Americans April 29, 1945 year cause the death suffered in it, according to the museum Dachau 41 500 people.
Memorial on the grounds of the former camp was founded only twenty years after the end of World War II – in 1965, thanks to the efforts former prisoners. Every year, the museum is visited by nearly a million people from all over the world.
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