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Famous entrance to Dachau camp - Dachau

Famous entrance to Dachau camp

The entrance to Dachau

Here are some pictures of the entrance of Dachau, unquestionably the most photographed place in the camp, and probably one of the more photographed places in Germany. On the gate, the morbid phrase 'Arbeit macht frei' (Work makes free), greeted prisoners as they were forced into this camp. Contrary to what a lot of people think, Dachau actually was NOT a death camp, as was Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, but instead a forced labor camp mainly reserved for political opponents of the Nazis and common criminals. The methods of cruelty here were so severe that many Nazi officers in charge of other camps were sent here by the central government to infuse them with a bit of the "Dachau spirit"

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