Photo: DPAAn iron gate with the infamous slogan "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work will set you free"), stolen from the former Nazi concentration camp of Dachau in Germany two years ago, was returned to the site Wednesday. The theft of the 100-kilogram gate was reported in November 2014, sparking uproar, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel calling the crime "appalling". At a ceremony marking the return of the gate, the president of the International Dachau Committee, Jean-Michel Thomas, urged investigators to press on with the probe into the theft. The Dachau camp near Munich opened in 1933, less than two months after Adolf Hitler became chancellor. Another sign with the same inscription at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz was stolen in 2009.

Source: The Local February 22, 2017 13:30 UTC