An Italian politician has used the "work makes you free" slogan used on the gates at Auschwitz in a brochure to promote local job centres. Tommaso Coletti said he could not remember the source but was impressed by the quote.
"Work makes you free. I don't remember where I read this phrase but it was one of those quotes that have an instant impact on you because they tell an immense truth," Mr Coletti, the president of Italy's southern Chieti province and member of the centre-left "Daisy" party, wrote in the pamphlet.
Countless photographs have focused on the "Arbeit macht Frei" sign at Auschwitz to encapsulate the horror of the Nazi death camps.
The governor of the Abruzzo region, which includes Coletti's province, has reportedly apologised to Italy's Jewish community.