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Work sets you free… from morals?
Published: 07 January, 2010, 06:16
Edited: 10 January, 2010, 06:18
The latest news in the case of a sign stolen from Auschwitz is that the Polish thieves allegedly committed the crime on behalf of a Swedish client.
Over which of the GULAG camps could not that selfsame sign not also be proudly flaunted? No, work does not set you free from morals. Not at Auschwitz, and not in Siberia. RT makes a big number about those who stole the sign from what is now a museum. Germany has apologised to all its neighbours many times for those who slaved under that sign when the gate over which it was set did not lead to a museum. Russia is affronted that anyone should suggest that it should likewise apologise for those who slaved in the spirit of that sign in its own land. Surely that refusal is many times more worthy of an article.
Nobody knows how many people were murdered in Auschwitz. Nobody knows how many Poles, Jews, or any other nationals, perished there as the Jews were citizens of different countries, Poland included. It does not diminish the crime but no one should make a mockery of the misery and tragedy of so many human lives. There are suspicions that the sign was removed because it reminded people that Auschwitz camp was originally 'designed' as a labour camp. People were working there till the end of the war.