Jedem das Seine Jedem das Seine "" () is the literal German translation of Latin "suum cuique", a fundamental juridical concept meaning "to each his own" or "to each what he deserves". During World War II the phrase was cynically used by the Nazis as a motto displayed over the entrance of Buchenwald concentration camp. This has resulted in use of the phrase being considered controversial in modern Germany. "Jedem das Seine" has been an idiomatic German expression for several centuries. For example, it is found in the works of Martin Luther and contemporaries. It appears in the title of a cantata by
Ulpian XV 686 c. Scholars today agree that Athenaeus's Ulpian is not the historical Ulpian, but possibly his father. The date of the real Ulpian's death in 223 AD has been wrongly used to estimate the date of completion of "The Deipnosophists". In the study of law, he is mostly remembered for the phrase ""Juris praecepta sunt haec: honeste vivere, alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere" (The basic principles of law are: to live honorably, not to harm any other person, to render each his own)". Ulpian Ulpian (; ; c. 170223) was a prominent Roman jurist of Tyrian ancestry. He