{"id":189855,"date":"2010-02-06T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/06\/remember-the-auschwitz-sign-theft\/"},"modified":"2010-02-06T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T22:27:00","slug":"remember-the-auschwitz-sign-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/06\/remember-the-auschwitz-sign-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the Auschwitz Sign Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img717.imageshack.us\/img717\/6497\/6a00d8341c68d353ef01287.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"370\" \/>In December, some Jamokes <a href=\"http:\/\/mithras.blogs.com\/blog\/2009\/12rbeit-macht-frei-sign-stolen-from-auschwitz.html\">stole the sign over the gate of Auschwitz<\/a>, the one that said &#8220;Arbeit Macht Frei,&#8221; basically saying (it was a lie) that work would set the inmates free.<\/p>\n<p>I remember reading about it, and thinking that I would wait a couple of days until the full story played out.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure if this was a stupid prank, something involving organized antisemitism, or something falling into the middle ground, where the history Polish anti-Semitism could be inferred from the incident, but there was no some grounds for doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Well, 2 months later, and the story has played out, and Mithras has nailed what happened in just 28 words (+ title):<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/mithras.blogs.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/turns-out-it-was-the-antisemites.html\">Turns Out, It Was Anti-Semites<\/a><\/span><br \/>The guy who commissioned the <a href=\"http:\/\/mithras.blogs.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/arbeit-macht-frei-sign-stolen-from-auschwitz.html\">theft<\/a> of the Auschwitz sign is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/03\/world\/europe\/03briefs-Poland.html\">Swedish neo-Nazi<\/a>. The Poles who stole the sign for him say <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">They Were Just Following Orders<\/span><\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December, some Jamokes stole the sign over the gate of Auschwitz, the one that said &#8220;Arbeit Macht Frei,&#8221; basically saying (it was a lie) that work would set the inmates free. I remember reading about it, and thinking that I would wait a couple of days until the full story played out. I wasn&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1114,967,1052,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antisemitism","category-bigotry","category-crimes","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}