[Der Spiegel-Germany] Scrap metal thieves have stolen some 1,000 bronze plaques from the former concentration camp at Theresienstadt just outside of Prague. The plaques were emblazoned with the names of prisoners who died at the Nazi concentration camp there. Czech police said many of them had been discovered at a scrap yard in northern Czech Republic. Czech Culture Minister Vaclav Jehlicka said that the plaques would be replaced but with non-metallic ones.
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