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Why did they put the words work will make you free on the entrance to Auschwitz death camp?
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∙ 13y ago
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.
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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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Was the Auschwitz sign hanging over the concentration camp or death camp?
The famous sign reading Arbeit macht frei was above the main entrance to Auschwitz I, which was the camp established in May and June 1940, that is, the first of the concentration camp sections.
The largest Nazi death camp was located at?
Auschwitz and it was located in Nazi-Occupied Poland.
Was Auschwitz a camp?
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Where was the most famous gas chamber?
Auschwitz Death Camp
The largest and most efficient death camp was in Poland?
Auschwitz-berkinau
Was the Auschwitz sign hanging over the concentration camp or death camp?
The famous sign reading Arbeit macht frei was above the main entrance to Auschwitz I, which was the camp established in May and June 1940, that is, the first of the concentration camp sections.
Where was Auschwitz death camp?
Auschwitz is located in Poland.
What death camp killed the most?
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Southwestern Poland Nazi death camp?
Auschwitz
What death camp did Edith Hollander go to?
Auschwitz.
What was the Holocaust's largest death camp?
Auschwitz-Birkenau
The largest Nazi death camp was located at?
Auschwitz and it was located in Nazi-Occupied Poland.
Where was the largest Nazi death camps located?
Auschwitz Birkenau, it acts as an death camp but it's an extermination camp.
When was Auschwitz death camp built?
Mainly in 1942, it was an extension to the existing concentration camp.
What camp was Anne go to before Bergen Belson?
Auschwitz death camp in Poland.
Was Auschwitz a camp?
yess it was a concentration camp but also a part of it was called Birkenau and Birkenau was a death camp
How many Jews died in The Auschwitz death camp?
about 900,000
