"Arbeit macht frei", meaning "Work sets you free", is a slogan placed, during the Holocaust, over the entrance to the Auschwitz extermination camp.
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Extermination
Synonyms for "extermination" (65 found)
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Translations
20 translations across 13 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- إبادة noun (the act of exterminating)
Armenian
1 entries- ոչնչացում noun (the act of exterminating)
Danish
1 entries- udrydning noun (the act of exterminating)
French
1 entries- extermination noun (the act of exterminating)
German
2 entries- Ausrottung noun (the act of exterminating)
- Vernichtung noun (the act of exterminating)
Hebrew
1 entries- השמדה noun (the act of exterminating)
Italian
2 entries- sterminazione noun (the act of exterminating)
- sterminio noun (the act of exterminating)
Ladino
2 entries- eksterminasion noun (the act of exterminating)
- eksterminio noun (the act of exterminating)
Polish
1 entries- eksterminacja noun (the act of exterminating)
Portuguese
2 entries- exterminação noun (the act of exterminating)
- extermínio noun (the act of exterminating)
Romanian
2 entries- exterminare noun (the act of exterminating)
- exterminațiune noun (the act of exterminating)
Russian
2 entries- истребле́ние noun (the act of exterminating)
- уничтоже́ние noun (the act of exterminating)
Spanish
2 entries- exterminación noun (the act of exterminating)
- exterminio noun (the act of exterminating)
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"Arbeit macht frei", meaning "Work sets you free", is a slogan posted during the Holocaust on the entrance to the Dachau extermination camp.
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"Arbeit macht frei", meaning "Work sets you free", is a slogan posted during the Holocaust over the entrance to the Auschwitz extermination camp.
Source: tatoeba (1428599)
When you demonize the indigenous people of some land, people from other countries would not question the occupation of their land or even their extermination. Brand them as "savage" or "terrorists", and nobody would question the confiscation of their land.
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