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What does arbeit macht frei mean?
It's a German saying that can be translated as "work makes you free". It was displayed over the main entrance to nearly all Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps and, most famously, at...
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How is arbeit macht frei ironic?
it is not, the prisoners worked until they were set free (by death). ____ Placed over the entrances to Nazi concentration camps it was a very sick joke. Irony is a phrase or sentence where the...
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Why did the Nazis write Arbeit Macht Frei on the gate?
The Germans wrote "Work Makes (you) Free" as a form of control over prisoners who hoped to one day be freed from the concentration camp of Auschwitz which is where this phrase would have been found...
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What camps had Arbeit macht frei over the entrance?
All the major Nazi concentration camps except Buchenwald had the slogan 'Arbeit macht frei' over at least the main entrance.At Buchenwald the slogan was 'Jedem das Seine', which means 'to each...
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Why was Arbeit macht frei on the gates to the concentration camps?
Each concentration camp kommandant was allowed to chose the motto for their camp. Arbeit Macht Frei was originally in the gate of Dachau. It was copied by three other major concentration camps (as...