Work makes you free.

Rating: 6
3 Ratings since 2007-09-12 20:17

Description
Visiting a former concentration camp outside Berlin, this sign is on an iron gate, and also at many other former Nazi camps, meaning "Work makes you free" which is total irony considering the situation at that time.

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Gate - - concentration - camp - - Germany

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Kojak wrote on 2007-09-12 20:17 GMT:

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Interesting image and good capture. The slogan is indeed very ironic and disgusts me...

manroy wrote on 2007-09-16 05:41 GMT:

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This is a verry thought provoking image, and it also takes me back to my early Military Service. In 1953 I was stationed in Germany with the Royal Artillery, before going to Korea, and whilst in Germany visited Belsen Concentration Camp, I came away several years older.

mikey416 wrote on 2007-09-21 08:59 GMT:

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It is difficult to say how one feels as you walk through a former concentration camp and when I came across this iron gate, and with the limited German that I know, I was totally sad about what the words meant and what the reality was behind the walls for each and everyone of the people being kept there.

IndayLeticia wrote on 2007-11-20 13:45 GMT:

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The "slogan" is engraved in the wood bulk post of the living room where I used to live. The imagination of the real situation in the history is a horror for me. What a co-insidence?