Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

my work, something that causes the prime uglies to be furious. That is why
any kind of unwarranted smearing of my name by these prime uglies amuses
me.
Did not Adolf Hitler write: ‘The man who is not opposed, and vilified, and
slandered in the Jewish press, is not a staunch German, and not a true
National Socialist. The best rule whereby the sincerity of his convictions, his
character and strength of will, can be measured is the hostility which his name
arouses among the mortal enemies of our people’.
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Some stories are never-ending. On 13 February 2010 the West Australian
headed a news update:
Former neo-nazi leader held over Auschwitz theft
Stockholm: Swedish police have arrested a former neo-nazi leader who
Polish investigators suspect of involvement in the theft of the ‘Arbeit
Macht Frei’ sign at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Anders Hogstrom, 24, was detained in Stockholm, prosecutor Agneta
Hilding Qvarnstrom said. She said Mr Hogstrom would be questioned by
Swedish investigators before authorities could decide on extraditing him to
Poland.
Polish officials have said that Mr Hogstrom was suspected of incitement to
commit theft of a cultural treasure. The infamous sign, which means
‘Work Sets You Free’ in German, was stolen in December from the
former death camp in Poland.
Police found in three days later and charged five Polish men with its theft.
Experts on Sweden’s extreme-Right say Mr Hogstrom founded and led
the neo-nazi National Socialist Front in the 1990s. Expo, a group that has
mapped right-wing extremists, said he left the Front in 1999 after two of its
members were convicted of murder and became an active opponent to
the extreme-Right.
As is evident from the above report, the story is on-going because it serves
as a vehicle for those who need the Holocaust narrative to give their life
meaningful content, and that is sad.
On-going stories can become rather boring for discriminating minds that
are able to detect universal patterns of conflict – it is the wheel turning or
the event repeating itself with some slight variation but essentially little
change in basics. Let us return to my story and present one item from the
media that set the tone of what was to follow.
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