Memorial Statue at Dachau Concentration Camp

You work your way to freedom

While on a business trip at Munich, Germany, I decided to arrive a couple of  days early to do side day trips around the city.

I took a quick train to Dachau to visit one of Germany’s concentration camp - Dachau. It’s located 16km or 10 miles north west of Munich. Thanks to German efficiency, the train ride took only 20 minutes and then we took a bus which dropped us directly in front of the camp.

This camp is a labour camp unlike its sister’s of Auschwitz. Most of the prisoners are political prisoners with some jewish, gypsies and russians.

I noticed that in every single one of German’s concentration camp, was a writing they put up on the gate (see photo) which says ‘Arbeit Marcht Frei’. Apparently it means “the gate to freedom” - you work hard for your freedom, it gave false perceptions to prisoners who all thought they could have better life once past that gate.

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