The phrase meant "Work sets you free." It was there so internees felt their was hope if they worked hard.
Because of the horror of the Holocaust which occurred there... perhaps as well as the inscription on the gates: "Arbeit macht frei"*****The inscription on the gate to Auschwitz is like that of many other camps. "Arbeit macht frei" is a German phrase meaning "labour makes (you) free". The slogan is known for having been placed over the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps during World War II, including most infamously Auschwitz I, where it was made by prisoners with metalwork skills and erected by order of the Nazis in June 1940. (Taken from Wikipedia)*****
The phrase was taken from Dachau, where it was on the gates. The first kommandant of Auschwitz had served in Dachau previously and thought that it was an appropriate motto.____The motto was used at all major Nazi concentration camps except Buchenwald. Before the Nazis came to power 'Arbeit macht frei' had been the slogan of the public works programme in the Weimar Republic but it is older than that, going back at least to the 1870s. Previously it had meant something like 'Work [employment] is the key to freedom [emancipation]' but obviously the SS used it as a sick joke.
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It was designed by the nazis but it was actully build by the slave workers
Yes, Auschwitz was important to the Nazis, especially during the Final Solution
because they did not want to get caught by the Soviets.
Nazis. Auschwitz was a death camp where thousands were murdered by poison gas and their bodies incinerated in ovens.
All the concentration camps and extermination camps were run by the SS.
Auschwitz I opened on May 1941 Auschwitz II Birkenau opened on October 1941 Auschwitz III Monowitz opened on October 1943
First: Dachau Largest: Auschwitz
The death camps were located in Poland and Germany.
Cause they felt nice