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Three plead guilty to Auschwitz sign theft

Three men have pleaded guilty to the theft of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the Auschwitz death camp, Polish prosecutors have said.

Under a plea bargain, the men - two Poles and a Swede - accepted prison terms of between 28 and 32 months.

The sign was recovered cut into three pieces three days after its theft in December last year.

Of the six million people, mostly Jews, murdered in the Nazi Holocaust, one million were killed at Auschwitz.

Three other Poles were convicted already for stealing the sign. The Swede, who was originally thought to be the mastermind is supposed to have neo-Nazi connexions. However, authorities believe a second Swede, unknown to them, was actually behind the plot. The sign was stolen and divided into in three pieces but recovered and restored.