"But no sooner had we taken a few more steps than we saw the barbed wire of another camp. This one had an iron gate with the overhead inscription: ARBEIT MACHT FREI. Work makes you free." (Wiesel 40)
http://rt.com/files/politics/stolen-auschwitz-sign-found/oswencim.n.jpg
This sign was the irony of Elie arrival in Auschwitz's. If you worked you died just slower. On the other hand if you didn't work you didn't have to endure the misery of that life and were free forever.
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