On Found Objects: Reflections on Auschwitz

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¹ The infamous gateway to the camp bearing the legend Arbeit Macht Frei—“work makes (you) free”—was the beginning of their death march once the railroad cars had arrived. The original sign now lies safely in storage at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum due to a thief from Sweden (abetted by two Poles) who had removed it in the middle of the night a few years ago, after which it was returned to authorities.

² A certain sick, sadistic competition between soldiers developed in which the whipping to death of prisoners became blood sport.

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Jon Mills

Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP, is a philosopher, psychologist, and psychoanalyst. He is Professor of Psychology & Psychoanalysis at the Adler Graduate Professional School in Toronto and runs a mental health corporation in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of numerous works in philosophy and psychoanalysis, including his most recent book, Underworlds: Philosophies of the Unconscious from Psychoanalysis to Metaphysics. He won the Goethe Award for best book in 2013 for Conundrums: A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and received a Gradiva Award three times from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in New York City.