Only 15 percent of Poles support the placing of new crosses outside the site of the Auschwitz death camp by radical Catholic militants, according to a new public opinion poll. But about half of those surveyed back the position of the Polish government and episcopate that the 22-foot cross under which Pope John Paul II once prayed should remain standing. Catholic activists have set up more than 300 crosses outside the former death camp since the end of July in defiance of Jewish groups, as well as the Polish Roman Catholic Church and the Polish government.
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