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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Oświęcim mayor: [Auschwitz] Sign theft wasn't anti-Semitic act

Ynet
...Residents of the small Polish town of Oświęcim, located near the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp, were said to be shocked by the incident.

"This is a tragedy," Mayor Janusz Marszalek told Ynet. "The residents are appalled and very sad."

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"This makes no sense," he said. "There were Jews in the camp, but 90% of those jailed in the camp were not Jews – they were Polish, Russian and other Catholics. Only after the Wannsee Conference in 1942, the Nazis sent Jews there. Thus, an anti-Semitic motive sounds illogical to me." Full story