# Quote — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

> The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.

- Author: [Hannah Arendt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hannah-arendt.md)
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