The tourist was arrested and fined after paying a Nazi salute at the concentration camp

A Dutch tourist has been detained in Poland for paying homage to a Nazi at a former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, according to local police.

The 29-year-old woman gestured in front of the mouth Work frees you up (Work frees you up).

The unidentified tourist was later accused of being involved in Nazi propaganda. Prosecutors imposed a fine, which she agreed to pay.

According to the BAP news agency, the woman said the act was a joke in bad taste.

She then posed for a photo taken by her husband.

This is not the first time foreigners have been arrested in Poland for promoting Nazi propaganda – up to two years in prison.

In 2013, two Turkish students were sentenced to six months in prison and fined for similar Nazi worship in Auschwitz.

After the invasion of the country in 1939 at the beginning of World War II, Nazi Germany built a death camp in the southern Polish city of Auschwitz.

In four and a half years, Nazi Germany planned and massacred at least 1.1 million people in Auschwitz. Nearly 1 million Jews.

Those evacuated to the camp were gassed, starved, died at work and subjected to medical examinations.

Nazi campaign to exterminate Jewish population in Europe – At least 6 million Jews die in the Holocaust. Auschwitz was at the center of this genocide.

Soviet troops liberated the camp in early 1945.

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