If there was ever a true "WTF", this is it. Why?
(AP) Polish police say the infamous iron sign over the gate to the Auschwitz memorial site with the cynical phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei" - German for "Work Sets You Free" - has been stolen.
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Padlo says the iron sign, which spanned a gate at the main entrance to the former Nazi death camp in southern Poland, was removed by being unscrewed on one side and pulled off on the other.
She says police have launched an intensive search. She says there are currently no suspects but police are pursuing several theories.
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