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Threshold to Freedom?

By Veronica Lopez

Continuing with the holocaust theme, here is one photo also taken at Auschwitz, Poland, which depicts the party’s slogan Arbeit Macht Frei. This infamous slogan was first used by German philologist Lorenz Diefenbach, saying that “gamblers and fraudsters find the path to virtue through labour”. So this makes me wonder that for the Nazi party no one was virtuous, except for them. And this kind of idea was also used in the USSR, with the Gulags. North Korea is a current example of that, where through “hard work” you will repent and pay for disrespecting the party and its leaders. And so on.

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Threshold to freedom


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