Auschwitz+Sign

====Above the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz is a sign that prisoners passed twice a day. The German phrase "Arbeit macht frei" was ordered by the camp commandant Rudolf Hoss. The phrase comes from a German novel that translates to, "work makes you free". The phrase was used by the German government to encourage people to work hard.==== ====The Nazi party began to use the sign once they came into power. Hoss took the motto from a camp in Germany, Dachau where political prisoners were held. Prisoners of the camp were forced to create the sign. The prisoners made the B on the sign upside-down on purpose to protest against the slogan. The sign was a political trick to make the prisoners believe that freedom could be obtained by hard work. Every morning the prisoners saw the sign as they were marched to work in the camp. The gate never led to freedom, but to work, pain, and even death.====