The "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign stolen from Auschwitz in southern Poland on Friday, has been found in Northern Poland and 5 men are being questioned by police. The 5 suspects, aged in their 20s and 30s, were not members of a neo-Nazi group, Krakow police said. The metal sign from the main gate, which symbolises for many the atrocities of Nazi Germany, had been cut into 3 pieces. The local police chief in Krakow, where the men were being questioned, said the theft had been financially motivated, and it remained unclear whether it was carried out to order. The sign's theft had caused outrage in Israel and among Polish politicians. More than a a million people, 90% of them Jews, were murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz during World War II.
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