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Origin
"
Jedem das Seine" is a German translation of an old
Greek principle of justice which translates literally into English as "To each his own," but with the idiomatic meaning of "To each what he deserves."
The phrase was made famous by the
Roman author, orator and politician
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC): "
Justitia suum cuique distribuit." ("Justice renders to everyone his due."
De Natura Deorum, III, 38.)
"
Suum cuique" served as a motto to
Prussia's King
Frederick the Great, and is still used by the
German military police (the
Feldjäger).
During
World War II, the
Nazis used the German phrase at the entrance to the
Buchenwald concentration camp. The gate reading "To Each His Own" remained in use after the war, when the Soviets occupied the camp and utilized it for the imprisonment of the Nazis themselves.
The phrase rendered notorious a
Nokia advertising campaign in
Germany in
1998, rousing objections from the
American Jewish Committee.
The phrase is still used as a proverb in German-speaking countries, though sometimes evoking negative associations.
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