The needles were found along the route used by the SS guards heading into hiding before they were caught and held accountable for their crimes. Not a nice subject, but something that must not be forgotten in view of how fragile the safety catch is to stop this sort of thing ever happening again:
http://nos.nl/artikel/623268-tatoeagenaald-auschwitz-gevonden.html
 
 Sorry, I headed this as a BBC article which of course it is not.
It is an article by the NOS in Holland. My apologies for the blooper.




















