Particularly horrifying was the fact that the many technological advances of the 19th and 20th centuries were utilized for the specific purpose of killing large numbers of people as efficiently as possible. The grim imagery of barbed wire, guard towers, and railroad tracks that lead nowhere is augmented by the haunting images of thousands of emaciated prisoners and the sign hanging over the camp’s entrance that cruelly promised Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Brings Freedom) to the trainloads of people destined to die. Of all the concentration camps built by the Nazis during World War II, it is Auschwitz that has the greatest hold on our collective memory.
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