To: BubbaFred who wrote (97173 ) 2/1/2004 8:55:56 PM From: marek_wojna Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 116764 <<Very ominous but such is the fate of destiny.>> If you ever will have a chance to visit Auschwitz concentration camp you will see at the gate of this hell on earth big sign written in german translated to english "WORK MAKES YOU FREE". Beside extermination camp right from the arrival of those who were not fit to work, it was basically working camp, and few now international chemical corporations were using prisoners working them to death, or to the point when they only qualified to gas chambers. The very few who survived took the chance and did as little labor or none at all risking punishment in the form of being beaten. But that was only way to survive, preserve your body energy, don't let them work you to death. And yes, if you were able to smuggle gold and had chance to bribe the good SS man, the chance was Jew was transfer to the place with higher rate of survival. No paper currency was accepted for person chance to live. Any, any government using slogan of freedom means totally opposite. Person could be only freed by him/herself in the peace time. In the war, or when the government is declaring that the nation is at war the picture change, the destiny or the luck needs little help. Sometimes is too late for the nation itself as it was in the case when poor Jew was blamed for setting the Reichstag on fire. Nation had no choice but to believe. Any comparison? Other nations still had the chance to stop this maniac at least by not supporting Hitler economically or like in the case of USSR by giving priority to trains full of strategic natural resources to Germany. In most cases destiny was creation of the politicians.