The Polish government took legal control of a field outside the site of the Auschwitz death camp, where fundamentalist Polish Catholics have recently erected crosses. A member of the Polish war victims group that held the lease to the land said he would fight the move in court. Jewish groups and Polish bishops have demanded the removal of the crosses.
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