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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Swedish neo-Nazi jailed for Auschwitz sign theft AFP - Friday, December 31 Send IM Story Print Swedish neo-Nazi jailed for Auschwitz sign theft WARSAW (AFP) - – A Polish court on Thursday jailed a Swedish neo-Nazi leader for 32 months for masterminding the theft of the infamous "Arbeit macht frei" sign from the entrance to the Auschwitz death camp. Anders Hoegstroem, 34, who originally faced up to 10 years behind bars, in November struck a plea bargain by admitting his role in the theft before the case reached court. On Thursday, a court in the southern Polish city of Krakow, accepted the 32-month prison term agreed in the plea bargain. "He will serve the sentence in Sweden, in accordance with an agreement with Swedish justice authorities," Polish court spokesman Rafal Lisak told AFP Thursday after the court announced its verdict. "He will be transferred to Sweden immediately after the verdict becomes binding in seven days," Lisak added. The theft of the sign from the site of the World War II death camp created by Nazi Germany in Oswiecim, southern Poland, sparked outrage in Israel and was strongly condemned in Poland and Germany as well as by the Jewish Diaspora around the globe. Hoegstroem was arrested in Sweden on a Polish warrant in February on suspicion of ordering the theft. Polish police recovered the five-metre (16-foot) metal sign -- which means work will set you free in German -- two days after it went missing on December 18, 2009. It had been chopped into three pieces. Five Polish men were also arrested and charged with the actual theft of the sign, three of whom were sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison earlier this year. Two others struck plea bargains along with Hoegstroem which the court in Krakow also approved on Thursday. A man identified only as Marcin A. was sentenced to 30 months behind bars while another named as Andrzej S. was sentenced to 28 months. Each were also fined 10,000 zloty (2,525 euros, 3,340 dollars). In 1994, Hoegstroem founded the National Socialist Front, a Swedish neo-Nazi movement he ran for five years before quitting. He originally had told Swedish media he was to act as an intermediary to pick up the sign and sell it to a buyer, adding however that he informed Polish police about the people behind the plot. No suspected buyer was ever identified by police. Run by the Polish state, the museum on the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp immediately replaced the stolen "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign with a copy. The original sign is now being repaired but museum officials have still not decided whether to reinstall it to its original spot over the gate to the camp entrance or keep it in the museum's collection. Security at the museum has been beefed up since the theft in a bid to prevent future robberies or vandalism on the vast grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau twin death camp sites. Of the six million Jews killed by Nazi Germany in the Holocaust, one million were murdered at Auschwitz, mostly in the camp's notorious gas chambers, along with tens of thousands of others including Poles, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war. 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