, Germany, Thuringia, Weimar - Buchenwald Memorial (KZ-Gedenkstaette), The cynical saying JEDEM DAS SEINE (To each his own) carved into the
, Germany, Thuringia, Weimar - Buchenwald Memorial (KZ-Gedenkstaette), The cynical saying JEDEM DAS SEINE (To each his own) carved into the gate of the Torgebaeude (main watchtower and main entrance). The wrought-iron camp gate of Buchenwald concentration camp, built at the beginning of 1938, bears the inscription To each his own. By order of the camp commandant, it was affixed so that it could be read from the inside. The prisoners standing on the roll call square were to have it constantly in front of their eyes. The inscription goes back to the two millennia old Roman legal principle suum cuique: Iuris praecepta sunt haec: honeste vivere, alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere. †The precepts of law are these: Live honourably, hurt no one, grant to each his own. The SS interpreted To each his own unmistakably as the right of the master race to humiliate and destroy others. [MODEL RELEASE: NOT APPLICABLE, PROPERTY RELEASE: NO (c) caro images / Bastian, , - In case of using the picture for any purpose, please contact the agency - the picture is subject to royalty!]
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