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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=477394" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fate Hanged on a Hairbreadth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=477394" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">It was summer,1944. <br>The train stood at the railway station of Gyŏr, <br>halfway on the road<br>between Budapest and Vienna.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=477394" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">In the boxcars <br>there were over 3,000 passengers. <br>The Hungarian gendarmes squeezed <br>the deported men, women and children<br>like sardines into the wagons <br>and the prisoners were crying for help. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=477394" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">For the SS-Unterscharführer<br>assigned to the transport <br>it was just another job. <br>The corporal already directed<br>many similar trains to the east.<br>And those trains always went to the east<br>and to the same terminus. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=477394" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">However, this transport of deportees<br>was unlike the others. <br>The SS corporal made a fatal mistake <br>but the guards discovered this <br>only at the Slovakian border.<br>The train's number was not<br>on the list of transports <br>destined for Auschwitz.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=477394" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The train stopped <br>at the Slovakian border.<br>Here the guards contacted<br>Colonel Adolf Eichmann by telephone<br>and informed him about the error.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=477394" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Eichmann decided<br>that since the train traveled that far <br>it should continue to Auschwitz. <br>So the SS guards changed the serial number<br>of the train and replaced it with the number <br>of another train departing from Debrecen.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=477394" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Thus, instead of the death camp<br>of Auschwitz-Birkenau <br>in Nazi occupied Poland, <br>the train from Debrecen<br>was sent to the distribution camp<br>of Strasshof in Austria.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=477394" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">As you see, <br>fate hanged in the war on a hairbreadth.<br>A freak of chance, a random accident, <br>an oversight of procedure, <br>or of a supposed algorithm, <br>could lead to arbitrary decisions<br>regarding the life or death of thousands.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=477394" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Although Strasshof<br>was a brutal slave labor lager, <br>most people there, <br>about 14,000 of the 21,000 deportees, <br>survived the ordeal of the Holocaust.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a></strong></div>