photo source, Reuters
Arbeit Macht Frei (Arbeit Macht Frei) is written on the iron gate of Auschwitz, a Nazi-run ‘death camp’
A Dutch tourist was detained for making a Nazi salute at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, local police said.
The tourist, a 29-year-old woman, saluted in front of a door that read ‘Work will set you free’ (Arbeit Macht Frei).
The woman’s name was not disclosed, and she was later charged with involvement in Nazi propaganda. Prosecutors asked for a fine, and the woman accepted it.
According to Polish state-run PAP news agency, the woman described her actions as a bad joke. At the time, he posed this pose when his husband took a picture.
This is not the first time a foreign tourist has been detained in Poland on charges of participating in Nazi propaganda. If found guilty, he could face up to two years in prison.
In 2013, two Turkish students were sentenced to six months in prison, three years of probation and a fine for saluting the Nazis in Auschwitz.
The German Nazis built a death camp in the southern city of Oswiecim after occupying Poland at the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
The German Nazis systematically murdered over 1.1 million people in Auschwitz in just four and a half years. Of these, about one million were Jews.
Those sent to the camps died while being sent to gas chambers, starving or forced labor, and in some cases even being mobilized for medical experiments. Most were killed in the gas chambers of Birkenau, Auschwitz II concentration camp.
Six million Jews died as a result of the Nazi Holocaust. Auschwitz was at the center of the genocide.
Soviet forces liberated the camp in early 1945.
Auschwitz concentration camp filmed by drone
