arbeit macht frei! or work shall set you free ... commonly found at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps, the slogan was an irony to the kind of freedom the inmates met during their imprisonment in the camps. Because only by working oneself to death, freedom was obtained.

Approximately six million European Jews were killed during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by the National Socialist regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler. This was known as the holocaust. But they were not exclusively Jews, other victims of the deliberate extermination included a large numbers of Roma (or Gypsies), Poles, political and war prisoners, homosexuals, people with disabilities and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp in Germany, operating between 1936 and 1950. Located at the edge of Berlin, it has an important position among the German concentration camps as the administrative centre of all concentration camps and a training centre for SS officers. About 200,000 people passed through Sachsenhausen between 1936 and 1945. Some 100,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition or pneumonia from the freezing cold.

Dachau was a Nazi German concentration camp, and the first one opened in Germany, located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (10 miles) northwest of Munich in southern Germany. Opened on 22 March 1933, Dachau served as a prototype and model for the other Nazi concentration camps that followed. In total, over 200,000 prisoners from more than 30 countries were housed in Dachau of which nearly one-third were Jews. In Dachau, several memorials were erected, one of which is a wall facing the entrance gate that says: NEVER AGAIN! in various languages of the world.

Indeed, never again!!
Let's pray for peace in Darfur ...

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsenhausen_concentration_camp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

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