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             2 British Teens Admit Stealing Objects from Auschwitz

   by VOA News

   Two British teenagers pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of stealing
   artifacts from the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland.

   Polish authorities said the teens, who were on a class trip, were
   caught with pieces of glass and metal, buttons, and part of an old
   hair-cutting device they apparently had dug out of the ground.

   Officials said the boys were freed from police custody but were
   apparently trying to work out a deal with Polish prosecutors to avoid a
   prison term of up to 10 years.

   A spokesman for the boys' school said they were deeply sorry.

   Polish authorities have handed down stiff fines and prison time to
   visitors who try to smuggle objects out of the Auschwitz site.

   In the most serious case, a Swedish man was sentenced for his part in a
   scheme to steal the notorious metal "Work Makes You Free" sign that
   prisoners saw upon arriving at the death camp during World War II.

   Poland's Nazi occupiers murdered more than 1 million Jews and thousands
   of prisoners of war, Poles, Gypsies and other minorities at Auschwitz
   between 1940 and 1945.
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