The Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg apologized Friday for a grade school’s Halloween Parade float that included imagery with deep connections to the Holocaust.

The float in question was entered in Thursday night’s Hanover Halloween Parade by the St. Joseph School there.

Photos show what appears to be a look-alike of one of the main gates at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, including the phrase “Arbeit Macht Frei.”

That phrase - which translates literally to “Work Makes You Free” - was commonly posted at World War II-era concentration camps throughout Europe, including Auschwitz, the deadliest of them all.

It was likely used, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, to mock the mostly Jewish populations sentenced to harsh, forced labor in them.

The phrase’s appe

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