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Yonnie3

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1. arbeit macht frei (work will set you free )
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 11:51 AM
Oct 2025

Where have I heard that before?

Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei

Use by the Nazis

In 1933, the first communist prisoners were being rounded up for an indefinite period without charges. They were held in a number of places in Germany. The slogan Arbeit macht frei was first used over the gate of the Oranienburg concentration camp,[8] which was set up in an abandoned brewery in March 1933 (it was later rebuilt in 1936 as Sachsenhausen).[9]

The slogan's use was part of the 1937–1938 reconstruction by Schutzstaffel (SS) officer Theodor Eicke at Dachau concentration camp.[10] From Dachau, it was copied by the Nazi officer Rudolf Höss, who had previously worked there. Höss was appointed to create the original camp at Auschwitz, which became known as Auschwitz (or Camp) 1 and whose intended purpose was to incarcerate Polish political detainees.[11][12]

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