# The "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign has been stolen from Dachau **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 2, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401 "2014-11-02T23:13:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/1 "2014-11-02T23:13:11Z")
[Nazi ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ sign stolen from gate at Dachau concentration camp](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11204284/Nazi-Arbeit-Macht-Frei-sign-stolen-from-gate-at-Dachau-concentration-camp.html) I guess I’m pitting the anonymous (neo-Nazi?) thieves. The Swedish neo-Nazi who had the same sign removed from the [Auschwitz gate in 2009](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/02/dachau-gate-stolen_n_6090396.html) is in jail, so who knows who the destroyers are. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/2 "2014-11-03T00:21:32Z")
Too bad someone didn’t steal it 71 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/3 "2014-11-03T01:21:44Z")
It’s needed here, in the home of Kapitalismus. Work makes us free, yes? ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/4 "2014-11-03T02:51:53Z")
What, again? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/5 "2014-11-03T03:21:17Z")
What a shame, that used to be such a nice neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/6 "2014-11-03T03:42:41Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > What, again? [Every five years](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/21/auschwitz-nazi-poland), like uhrwerk. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/7 "2014-11-03T18:18:45Z")
It’s probably hanging in some teenager’s bedroom. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/8 "2014-11-03T18:29:05Z")
This is why we can’t have nice things. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/9 "2014-11-03T22:16:13Z")
But it would, like, look really cool at the entrance to your frat house. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/10 "2014-11-03T23:21:23Z")
What sign? There wasn’t a sign. 😕😕😕 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/11 "2014-11-04T02:34:11Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > It’s probably hanging in some teenager’s bedroom. And the teenager will, of course, studiously ignore the message. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/12 "2014-11-04T02:59:42Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Too bad someone didn’t steal it 71 years ago. That, then, would have been a feat of daring. This, now, is just a dick move. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/13 "2014-11-04T04:40:34Z")
Probably arbeit macht freicyclers, ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/14 "2014-11-04T05:24:06Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > And the teenager will, of course, studiously ignore the message. To be fair, so did the Nazis. Lots of Arbeit going on in Dachau and Auschwitz but not much Freiheit was gemacht, not as such… ---
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/15 "2014-11-04T06:00:15Z")
Replace it with “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/16 "2014-11-04T12:52:25Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > And the teenager will, of course, studiously ignore the message. What are you talking about? He put in the work and got it for free. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/17 "2014-11-04T14:49:04Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > What sign? There wasn’t a sign. 😕😕😕 The articles I’ve seen don’t say sign, it was a gate at the main entrance with the slogan on it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/18 "2014-11-04T15:12:57Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > What a shame, that used to be such a nice neighborhood. _credits one internet to **Bryan Ekers** ’ account_ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/19 "2014-11-04T17:22:38Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > Replace it with “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” Repeated hundreds of times all over the walls and fences . . . ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401/20 "2014-11-04T19:56:25Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > What sign? There wasn’t a sign. 😕😕😕 It was a black metal arch over the gate, with black metal letters between an upper and lower borders. It wasn’t solid, just the border outlines and the letters. I think it could be called a sign. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arbeit-macht-frei-sign-has-been-stolen-from-dachau/703401.md?page=2)