Arbeit macht frei

I remember that.

Or Arbeit macht frei, to work will make you free

freeYes.

So we're going, okay, so what are you saying here? You're gonna own nothing.

Also, their butchers cynically used the fact that Jews had learned to survive over centuries by rendering themselves useful to the authorities.

Hence the cynical lie that labor leads to freedom, Arbeit macht frei, while in reality the objective was Vernichtung durch Arbeit.

And even though the Holocaust itself was carried out with machine-like efficiency, as a goal, it was totally senseless, irrational, It's therefore absurd to say that the Jews should have foreseen that this was the plan all along.

After the Shoah, many Jews understandably gave up on Europe entirely.

It's like, oh, come on, man.

You might as well be like the fucking, the new Gundam movie is called Arbeit Macht Frei.

[laughs] Oh, the, the new Madoka Magica is actually just called Kristallnacht.

[laughs]

Of course, moving and walking through those gates.

I've seen the picture so many times, "Arbeit macht frei," the, the literal German, "Work makes free." This is, you know, your path of liberation, of course, is the, the path to, to death.

You know, just broke down crying just walking through those gates, and so much of it is overwhelming when you're there.

On the other hand, I felt like I'd been there many times before.

Based on this tactic, has Trump met the burden of fascism? Yes.

ten dismantling labor and public welfare stanley titled this chapter after the phrases written on the gates of the concentration camps arbeit macht frei work shall make you free in a fascist system the minority group and the political left are framed as lazy and parasitic they take they drain they don't contribute Labor unions are branded as the enemies of the state and crushed.

Public services are gutted.

The only virtue is hard work by the underclasses, which only benefits the people at the top.

Ivan and his fellow soldiers slowly approach the barbed wire, with rifles raised, their boot crunching over freshly fallen snow.

Above the locked iron gates, darkly silhouetted against the pale winter sky, is the German phrase, "'Arbeit macht frei,' or work will set you free.'" Ivan observes that the ground beyond the wire is covered with what looks like bundles of sticks and rags.

Then he notices the smell.

It's a noxious scent, unlike anything he's ever experienced.

Are you talking about what I think you're talking about?

Yeah, there used to be a sign on top of A place that said Arbeit macht frei.

We were

thinking about the same thing.

What did you say to her?

Well, this was in a synagogue in Budapest and In the synagogue, there was an exhibition of photographs from Auschwitz and also a mock-up of the gate of the concentration camp with the words on it, the famous words, Arbeit macht frei, work will set you free.

And she just stood in the mock doorway and I'd been telling her about my faith quietly in Christ and she said, what does your religion make of this? And she wanted an answer.

And I said, this is going to be difficult for you.

towards that end, I'll just do this quick, because I know you want to move on to something.

But back to these 10 tactics of fascism, Jason Stanley, what you just talked about there is this last one, Arbeit macht frei.

Arbeit macht frei.

However you say that, I don't speak German.

It says work and value here, but it's work will make you free.