[lbo-talk] Re: cushy life/strict equality

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jan 27 16:38:45 PST 2005


BklynMagus wrote:


>Carl writes:
>
>> "You're forgetting our new national motto: Arbeit Macht Frei."
>
>What does the motto mean and where did it come from?
>(translations into English help us monoliguists)

Work makes [one] free in German, famous for being the inscription on the entrance gate at Auschwitz. Though, as the pix at <http://www.rudyfoto.com/hol/arbeit.html> show, it was also at other concentration camps.

Doug



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