The infamous¹ Arbeit Macht Frei sign at the Auschwitz Nazi² death camp in Poland - stolen last month and quickly recovered - has been returned.

波兰奥斯维辛纳粹集中营臭名昭著的“劳动创造自由”标语已经被归还，该标语上月曾遭盗窃但被快速找回。

Hundreds of thousands of people passed under the sign to death

Police handed the damaged wrought³ iron锻铁，熟铁 sign to officials at the camp's museum and they will now try to restore it.

The museum said it was not yet clear if the sign, which thieves cut into three pieces, will be put back in place.

Five Polish men have been charged over the theft, and prosecutors⁴ are also pursuing a suspected Swedish neo-Nazi新纳粹主义分子.

The museum placed a copy of the sign - which means "Work sets you free" - over the gate immediately after the theft.

'Profaned⁵'

The repairs mean the original will not be back in place for ceremonies on 27 January marking the 65th anniversary of the camp's liberation by Soviet⁶ troops.

"We are very relieved that this profaned世俗的，亵渎的 and vandalised破坏 sign will return to its place," Jaroslaw Mensfelt, a spokesman for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, told Reuters news agency.

"But as to the question of whether it will return to the gate or not, this will be decided⁷ by a number of criteria标准，条件."

The museum said its management would decide, along with the International Auschwitz Committee, whether to put the sign back above the gate.

The five-metre (16-ft) sign was recovered in northern Poland two days after it was stolen from the camp on 18 December.

Made by prisoners under German orders, it remains⁸ an enduring symbol of the Holocaust毁灭，大屠杀.

More than a million people - 90% of them Jews - were murdered by the Nazis⁹ at Auschwitz during World War II.