WARSAW, December 21 (RIA Novosti) - Polish police has found the stolen Arbeit macht frei iron sign at the entrance to the Nazi-era Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, a police spokesman said on Monday.
The infamous sign was found in a small town in northern Poland, it was sawn in three parts, each containing one word. Police detained five suspects, all of them men aged from 20 to 39.
"The detained men are now being taken by a special convoy to a police department in Krakow, where they would be interrogated this morning," the spokesman said.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of all the concentration and extermination camps operated by the Nazis during World War II. More than 1 million people - 90% of them Jews - died there.
The sign, which is German for "Work Sets You Free," disappeared between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. local time last Friday. Workers of the memorial, which is located at the former camp, put at the entrance the sign's copy made during renovation works in 2006.
