Iron ‘arbeit macht frei’ gate stolen from Dachau found two years after sick thieves pinched it from Nazi concentration camp
Gate to be returned to German authorities after infamous structure is found in Bergen, Norway after anonymous tip
AN iron gate stolen from a former Nazi death camp two years ago has been found.
The structure with the “Arbeit macht frei” (work sets you free) slogan was taken at Dachau, Germany.
Cops said it was found in a store room in Bergen, Norway after an anonymous tip led to the find.
A source said no arrests had been made and the sign will be returned to German authorities.
The Nazis set the camp up only weeks after Adolf Hitler took power. It was designed to detain political opponents.
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It became part of a network of death camps where six million Jews were murdered.
More than 41,000 died at Dachau and more than 200,000 people had been detained in the camp by the time it was liberated at the end of World War Two.
Television footage showing piles of bodies and starved inmates of the camp were among the first images the world saw of the Holocaust.
In 2009, a similar "Arbeit macht frei" sign was stolen from the entry gate of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in Poland by a Swedish neo-Nazi.
