What Were You Thinking?
An American tourist visiting Auschwitz allegedly attempted to steal a piece of metal from the train tracks in 2019. The place, of course, is now a memorial to the many lives horribly lost there during WWII.
He was sentenced to ten years in prison for ‘attempted theft of an item of cultural importance.’ So, the next time you’re planning on nipping something from a historical sight, we urge you to think twice.
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