Tourist arrested and fined after giving a Nazi salute in a concentration camp
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The 29-year-old gestured in front of the gate with the words Arbeit Macht Frei (Work sets you free).
A Dutch tourist has been arrested in Poland for performing a Nazi salute at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, according to local police.
The 29-year-old gestured in front of the gate with the words Work sets you free (Work sets you free.)
The tourist, whose identity has not been revealed, was later accused of participating in Nazi propaganda. Prosecutors issued a fine, and she agreed to pay it.
The woman said the act was a joke with bad taste, according to the Palestinian News Agency.
She was posing for a picture taken by her husband at the time.
This is not the first time foreigners have been arrested for promoting Nazi propaganda in Poland – a charge that carries a sentence of up to two years in prison.
In 2013, two Turkish students were sentenced to six months in prison and a fine for a similar Nazi salute at Auschwitz.
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Nazi Germany killed at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz
Nazi Germany set up a death camp in the southern Polish city of Oswiecim after the invasion and occupation of the country at the start of World War II in 1939.
In just over four and a half years, Nazi Germany systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz. It was nearly a million Jews.
The envoys to the camp were gassed, starved, worked to death, and subjected to medical experiments.
At least 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust – the Nazi campaign to eliminate the Jewish population of Europe. Auschwitz was at the center of this genocide.
Soviet troops liberated the camp in early 1945.
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