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Dutch tourist gives Hitler salute in Auschwitz and is arrested
The tourist posed for a photo with her arm raised in front of the camp gate in Auschwitz with the inscription “Work sets you free”
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A Dutch tourist has been arrested on the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. She had shown the Hitler salute.
A Dutch tourist has been arrested at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland for performing the Nazi salute. Polish police officers then arrested the 29-year-old woman, the police said on Twitter. Accordingly, she had posed with her arm raised in front of the camp gate with the inscription “Work makes you free”. Prosecutors imposed a fine, which they accepted, Polish news agency PAP reported.
Security guards caught her in the act when she posed for a photo taken by her husband. “She dismissed it as a bad joke,” regional police spokesman Bartosz Izdebski told the PAP news agency.
One million Jews were murdered in the Auschwitz death camp
The death camp is a symbol of Nazi Germany’s genocide of six million European Jews. Between 1940 and 1945, one million Jews and 100,000 other people were murdered there.
