When Elie Wiesel arrived at Auschwitz, the iron gate had an overhead inscription which read “Work makes you free”. These words possess situational irony for many reasons including the Nazis true intentions, the actual function of Auschwitz, and the time other prisoners had been kept. To begin, this slogan holds a positive connotation which does not match the vicious nature and ill-intention of the Nazis. The camps would never hold this true as work would not grant any of the prisoners their freedom. In fact, the head of Elie’s block was removed when “...he was judged too humane” (Wiesel 44). The Nazis had did not have good intentions for their prisoners in their treatment and therefore would never go as far to liberate them. Furthermore, Auschwitz
