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"Arbeit macht frei", meaning "Work sets you free", is a slogan placed, during the Holocaust, over the entrance to the Auschwitz extermination camp.

"Arbeit macht frei", meaning "Work sets you free", is a slogan posted during the Holocaust on the entrance to the Dachau extermination camp.

"Arbeit macht frei", meaning "Work sets you free", is a slogan posted during the Holocaust over the entrance to the Auschwitz extermination camp.

The slogan "Arbeit macht frei" at the gates of the Nazi concentration camps was entirely cynical. The prisoners who believed the deceitful promise that work would set them free had no real chance of freedom, regardless of how much they laboured. Many of them were worked to death; many more were deliberately exterminated.

Nazis marched in Chicago with signs saying "Arbeit macht frei."