Poland said it was disappointed that a Polish court had refused to let it take over an area near the site of the Auschwitz death camp where hundreds of crosses have recently been erected. The government is considering whether to appeal the decision on the crosses, which have been set up by fundamentalist Catholic activists who want to commemorate a massacre of Poles during World War II.
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