Anti-Semitic graffiti discovered by staff at Auschwitz

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Nine barracks were spray-painted with anti-Semitic phrases and slogans denying the Holocaust, according to the Auschwitz memorial and museum.

The graffiti was found at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site, the largest of the 40 camps that made up the Nazi complex.

While vandalism at the site is rare, in 2010 a Swedish man was jailed for two years and eight months for plotting the theft of the infamous "Arbeit macht frei" sign that hangs over the entrance to the camp.

Earlier this year the wall of a Jewish cemetery near the camp was defaced with swastikas and other Nazi symbols.