Capitol rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt gets 75 days in prison

The US Capitol rioter who wore a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt during the Jan. 6 insurrection was sentenced Thursday to 75 days in prison.

Robert Keith Packer, 57, was sentenced by US District Judge Carl Nichols, who called the rioter’s sweatshirt “incredibly offensive.”

Packer, of Virginia, garnered widespread attention for the black “Camp Auschwitz” pullover that featured a skull and crossbones and the phrase “Works Brings Freedom” — a rough translation of the German “Arbeit Macht Frei,” which was written above the gates of Auschwitz.

The back of the sweatshirt bore the words, “Staff.”

According to Assistant US Attorney Mona Furst, Packer also wore another Nazi-related article underneath the pullover: an “SS” T-shirt, a reference to the Nazi Party paramilitary organization founded by Adolf Hitler.