On the #80thAnniversary of the liberation of #Auschwitz. I'd like to comment on the camp's notorious slogan "Arbeit macht frei" - work makes you free.
Anthroposophy teaches hard work is supposedly spiritually purifying, a teaching that's embodied in its Camphill communities
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also is that hard work shows a desire to be close to the spiritual world.
The founder of Anthroposophy, Rudolph Steiner taught that the only freedom is spiritual freedom.
Anthroposophy was involved w/the #3rdReich, as Prof. Peter Staudenmeier's research revealed,
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and, moreover, The Anthroposophical pharmaceutical company, Weleda, supplied the Nazi camp at Dachau, where Himmler established a biodynamic garden, with its products for testing on (i. e., torturing of) its imprisoned inmates:
"Weleda supplied naturopathic materials for
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‘medical experiments’ (i.e. torture) on prisoners at Dachau. 50 Weleda’s longtime head gardener, Franz Lippert, asked to be transferred to Dachau in 1941 to oversee the biodynamic plantation that Himmler had established at the concentration camp."
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