Arbeit Macht Frei...

At the entrance to every death camp, an iron gate was fashioned with the term “Arbeit Macht Frei” overhead. In German, that means, “Work will make you free”, but the German units who put it there quite obviously never had any of the prisoner’s liberation in mind. I have never seen such thorough and complete facilities to keep watch over even the most hardened of criminals, the greatest of treasures, or against the most determined of special operations soldiers. To say then that the defenses of the place were targeted at keeping and continually harassing a population of presumably mostly women and children, and that the overkill of such elaborate artifices of surveillance and persecution delve deeply into nothing other than paranoid madness would be an understatement. All around the complex, multiple redundant walls of 10 foot tall barbed wire arc overhead (note that the arc would be toward you if you were attempting to climb over it), augmented by guard towers, parapets for machine-guns, and concentric and labyrinthine walls of patrollable trenches for additional machine guns or soldiers with trained attack dogs.