Full marks to the Poles here, great job! You stepped up to the mark, you have acted whole heartedly for good! Keeping these museums and the memory is a great service Poland is doing for everyone.

It is high time that the world bury Hitler and Stalin for ever and not give them any more attention. Also, what practical good does it really do {other than acting politically correct} to maintain alledged death camps throughout the world. These are not the type of things to remember or be proud of. Instead, use the money to help people who are starving in many parts of the world. History books have recorded evil misdeeds of the past. Humanity does not need to continually relive the atrocities of the past. Mankind has not learned anything from the past, because there are still wars and mass killings going on in todays world. Use all the wealth and energy to deal with today's atrocities and to try the current HITLER/STALIN TYPES in an international court.

This quote from a Polish official is very, very confusing: "“All this is very sad. The perpetrators either did not know where they were or, what is even sadder, they knew it but that did not stop them from stealing it," a museum employee is quoted as saying. Can anyone decipher this? Does it mean that we could assume that they just did not know where they were? Unless they are from another planet, they had to know. And then, having established that, how is it "sad" they they knew where they were, but it did not stop them from steeling it? Are we supposed to be so silly? Let's see. This jolly bunch just "happened" to be there, and then having realized (or not) what they stumbled across, just stole the thing --- not perhaps realizing its significance. What a bunch of .... Even if they are members of whatever-neo-right-wing, this will never be published. They will remain in public eye just a bunch of lowlife, that accidentally came across something valuable (like they went on a midnight stroll), decided that the iron may be worth something. This excessive effort at minimizing, diffusing and obfuscating, is what is much more offensive to me, then the act of a bunch of politically motivated vandals. Do not excuse them, please. Congratulations to Polish law enforcement. The protection of monuments and museums is still mankind's duty. Provided we learn how to use them to unite us, not divide. This is why it is so sad to see many World War II monuments now so abused and even demolished. Too many people in Europe still need to learn that the monuments are not for glory, but for grieving.