The tourist was caught in the act by guards while posing for a photo taken by her husband.
Polish police said on Sunday they detained a Dutch tourist for giving the Nazi salute at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
“Officers from (the southern city of) Oswiecim detained a 29-year-old woman from the Netherlands today,” the regional police tweeted.
“The tourist made the Hitler salute in front of the ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ (Work makes you free)” fence, they added.
“The detainee was accused of carrying out Nazi propaganda. She confessed,” he continued.
As punishment, prosecutors imposed a fine on her, which she accepted, according to the Polish news agency PAP.
The woman was caught in the act by guards while posing for a photo taken by her husband. “He said it was a bad joke”, the press chief of the regional police, Bartosz Izdebski, told PAP.
Nazi Germany built the Oswiecim extermination camp after occupying Poland during World War II.
The site became a symbol of Nazi Germany’s genocide of six million European Jews, one million of whom died in the camp between 1940 and 1945 along with more than 100,000 non-Jews. (I)
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