Security officials noticed early Sunday morning that the gate measuring 190 by 95 centimeters (75 by 37 inches) \u2014 set into a larger iron gate \u2014 was missing, police said in a statement. Whoever stole it during the night would have had to climb over another gate to reach it, they added.<\/p>\n
Police said they found nothing in the immediate vicinity of the camp and appealed for anyone who noticed any suspicious people or vehicles to come forward.<\/p>\n
Dachau, near Munich, was the first concentration camp set up by the Nazis in 1933. More than 200,000 people from across Europe were held there and over 40,000 prisoners died before it was liberated by U.S. forces on April 29, 1945. The camp is now a memorial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I went there with my family in the mid-80s and we passed through that gate. The AP also says that a similar gate at Auschwitz was stolen a few years back;<\/p>\n
In December 2009, the infamous “Arbeit macht frei” sign that spanned the main gate of the Auschwitz death camp, built by the Nazis in occupied Poland, was stolen. Police found it three days later cut into pieces in a forest on the other side of Poland.<\/p>\n
A Swedish man who had a neo-Nazi past was found guilty of instigating that theft and jailed in his homeland. Five Poles also were convicted of involvement and imprisoned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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