text: Image copyright AFP Image caption Bavarian police have released a picture of a gate found in Norway 
   
   German police say they believe an iron gate stolen in 2014 from a former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau has been found in Norway. 
   
   Bavaria's police say their colleagues in Bergen found a gate with the Nazi slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work sets you free") after an anonymous tip-off. 
   
   After receiving photos from Norway, the police say it is "highly likely" to be the infamous gate. 
   
   More than 40,000 people were murdered by the Nazis in Dachau, near Munich. 
   
   Image copyright AFP Image caption The notorious 'Work sets you free' gate before it was stolen 
   
   Built in 1933, the camp at Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp and it initially housed political prisoners. 
   
   Thousands of Jews, foreigners and other groups persecuted by the Nazis were later held at Dachau. Many inmates were shot or gassed, with thousands others dying through disease or overwork. 
   
   The camp was liberated by US troops in 1945. 
   
   It is now a memorial, attracting hundreds of thousand of visitors from around the world. ||||| 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. ||||| An iron gate with the slogan “Arbeit macht frei” (work will set you free) that was stolen from the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau two years ago has been found in Norway, police say. 
   
   “Due to an anonymous tipoff, police in Norway’s Bergen have secured an iron gate with the well-known text,” Bavaria state police said on Friday. “From the picture transmitted, police believe it is highly likely that this is the iron gate that was stolen from Dachau.” 
   
   The theft of the 100kg (220lb) gate was reported on 2 November 2014, sparking uproar, with Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, calling it “appalling”. 
   
   Facebook Twitter Pinterest Workers install a replacement gate at Dachau in April 2015 after the original was stolen. Photograph: Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images 
   
   The Dachau camp, just a few miles from Munich, opened in 1933, less than two months after Adolf Hitler became chancellor. It was first used to incarcerate political prisoners, but during the second world war it became a death camp where more than 41,000 Jews were slaughtered before US troops liberated it on 29 April 1945. 
   
   Another sign with the same inscription at Auschwitz was stolen in 2009. The mastermind of that theft, the Swedish neo-Nazi Anders Högström, was caught and jailed for two-and-a-half years. 
   
   The metal sign was eventually recovered cut up into three pieces. A replica was displayed above the entrance until it was restored in 2011. ||||| Story highlights Police didn't release further details on where they found the gate 
   
   The gate has been missing since 2014 
   
   (CNN) An iron gate with the notorious Nazi slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei" stolen from a German concentration camp site most likely has been recovered. 
   
   Authorities said they found a gate that matches the description of the one from the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial in Bergen, Noway, after receiving an anonymous tip. 
   
   The gate has been missing since 2014, despite a reward of $10,000. 
   
   Police didn't release further details on where exactly they found the gate or who tipped them off. 
   
   "This is all the information we have at the moment," a spokesman for Bavarian police told CNN. "International communication is not very fast, we will have to wait for more information." 
   
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target: – Two years ago when someone stole an infamous iron gate from the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, Angela Merkel called the theft "appalling" and the director of the Dachau memorial said it was a "deliberate, reprehensible attempt to deny and obliterate the memory of the crimes." On Friday, police announced the gate bearing the Nazi propaganda slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei"—"Work Sets You Free"—has likely been found in Bergen, Norway, following an anonymous tip, the BBC reports. According to CNN, police haven't given any information about the tipper or where specifically the gate was found. No arrests have been made, Reuters reports. Police say the gate, which appears to be in OK condition, will be returned to Germany "as soon as practical." The Nazis opened the Dachau camp in 1933, and by the time it was liberated by US soldiers in 1945, more than 41,000 people—most of them Jews—had been killed there, the Guardian reports. The 220-pound iron gate was made by inmates at the camp, and its slogan was an attempt by the Nazis to pass off the concentration camp as a "work and re-education camp." The Dachau camp is currently a memorial, and German authorities installed a replica gate there last year. A $10,000 reward had been offered for the return of the original gate. A sign with the same "Arbeit Macht Frei" phrase on it was stolen from Auschwitz in 2009 by a Swedish neo-Nazi, who spent more than two years in jail. (A Holocaust-themed skating number didn't go over well.)