Oswiecim - Radical Roman Catholics defied Polish bishops and erected 10 more large crosses yesterday outside the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz, witnesses said.
There are now 111 crosses scattered across a field beside the camp, where 1.5 million people were murdered in the second World War, most of them Jews. Right-wing trade union and Polish-American bodies set up the newest crosses, despite a plea this week from Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Poland for the activists to stop.
Nationalist Catholic groups have pledged to defend the crosses, which Jewish groups want removed, saying they commemorate the execution of 152 Poles by the Nazis.