In Ashburnham ,the town next to mine, there is a street called River Styx Road. The road sign for years was constantly being stolen.
However I suspect this sign stealing has very little to do with a teenage kid putting stuff on his wall:
Thieves on Friday stole the notorious metal sign hanging over the entrance of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz that reads “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work makes free”), police said.
they don’t think it’s kids either:
Polish Ambassador to Israel Agnieszka Magdziak-Miszewska said that the Polish police believe the unknown perpetrators who stole the infamous sign at the entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz meticulously planned out their plot because they were not caught on security cameras.
“Everyone is doing everything they can in order to catch those who did this,” she said, adding that the governor of the region declared a state of emergency. She also said that finding the metal sign is a national priority.
Pam at Atlas has a rather pessimistic view:
Perhaps they need it for this century’s ovens
Considering how much mass murder is going on around the world it is well to consider something I wrote a bit ago:
…the reason why there are holocaust museums today isn’t because of what was done, governments KNEW what was being done and didn’t give a damn.
It’s because an army of average American SAW it and were outraged. It could not be ignored or explained away. Excuses wouldn’t wash.
The generation of people who were born post Holocaust are now 65 years old Three generations of people from that age down know only what we have passed down to them. It is the responsibility of us to pass on this history and it’s significance to future generations.
At best this signifies our failure.
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