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. 
 
 Police spokeswoman Katarzyna Padlo said police believe it was stolen between 3:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. Friday, when museum guards noticed that it was missing and alerted police. 
 
 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. ||||| A handout picture made available to Reuters on December 2, 2016 shows the iron gate from the Dachau concentration camp in Germany bearing the notorious "Arbeit macht frei" (work sets you free) slogan, which has been recovered in west Norway two years after it was stolen, police said. REUTERS/Police Norway/Handout via Reuters 
 
 (This December 2 story was corrected to change date of camp’s liberation to April 29, 1945, from May 3) 
 
 OSLO (Reuters) - An iron gate from Dachau concentration camp in Germany with the notorious “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work sets you free”) slogan has been found in western Norway two years after it was stolen, police said on Friday. 
 
 “The gate is in okay condition and will be returned to German authorities as soon as practical,” police in the western city of Bergen wrote in a statement. 
 
 Police got an anonymous tip that led to the find and a source said no arrests had been made. They issued two pictures of the gate propped up in a store room, apparently intact and mostly black with some flaking paint. 
 
 German authorities made a replica of the gate, 1.87 meters (6.14 feet) high and weighing 108 kg (238 lbs), which they installed at Dachau last year to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation by U.S. troops on April 29, 1945. 
 
 The Nazis set up the camp in Dachau outside Munich only weeks after Adolf Hitler took power. Initially designed to detain political rivals, it became the prototype for a network of concentration camps where 6 million Jews were murdered. 
 
 More than 41,000 died at Dachau and more than 200,000 people had been detained in the camp by the time it was liberated at the end of World War Two. 
 
 Television footage showing piles of bodies and starved inmates of the camp were among the first images the world saw of the Holocaust. 
 
 In December 2009, a similar “Arbeit macht frei” sign was stolen from the entry gate of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in Poland by a Swedish man with far-right ties.
– Thieves have made off with the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign that spans a gate at Auschwitz. The sign—which reads "Work Makes You Free" in German—was unscrewed and carried away overnight, AP reports. Police have no suspects but they are reviewing surveillance video footage and pursuing several theories. "It's a terrible thing," an official at the Auschwitz museum told the BBC. "The sign means everything—it's a symbol of what Auschwitz stands for. But a place where hundreds of thousands of people died obviously doesn't mean anything to the thieves."