... devastating depression). By 1933 the economy "stood on the brink of collapse, with an economy which should, realistically, have long since declared itself bankrupt" (Frei 163). Now Germans felt that the so called "democratic" system had brought them nothing but trouble and this paved the way for Hitler and his Nationalist ... government they mistrusted. That's why they opted to vote for the National Socialist German Workers Party, which would later be known as the Nazi party (Frei 2). As soon as he was appointed, Hitler focused his attention on reinforcing the beliefs that Germans alrea...

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... and it was the death camp with forty gas chambers. Auschwitz 3 was a slave labor camp(Gilbert 15). On the gate of Auschwitz was a sign in German which read, 'Arbeit macht frei', which means "work makes you free". Auschwitz included camp sites a few miles away from the main complex. At these sites, slave labor was used to kill the people. The working ... ...

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... . "The Black Wall" in the front of that building, where the normal execution of prisoners were held. And at the camp's gate, there was a large seal which said " " Arbeit macht frei" (Work leads to freedom)" (Gutman107). In March 1941, Himmler who was the head of the SS and German police ordered to a second section of the camp to be built, which ... ...

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