Re: who invented "arbeit macht frei"?
- From: Cub Driver <warbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:58:06 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 18:00:43 +0000 (UTC), "ferrante formato"
<ferrante_formato@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Who invented the assertion "arbeit macht frei"?
>Was it first or after 1931?
Evidently before. Wikipedia says that: "In 1872, the
German-nationalist author Lorenz Diefenbach used it as a title for a
novel, which caused it to become well-known in nationalist circles.
The slogan was then employed by the German Nazi party during the
1930s, at the time when they were instigating a massive national
construction policy to counter unemployment."
It goes on to say with respect to the concentration camps that "the
use of the slogan in this particular way was ordered by SS General
Theodor Eicke, inspector of the concentration camps."
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