“The news had immediate repercussions. All who illegally posseassed second shirts, stolen or organized, or even honestly bought with bread as a protection against the cold or to invest capital in a moment of prosperity, immediately rushed to the Exchange Market, hoping to arrive in time to barter their reserve shirts for food products before the flood of new shirts, or the certainity of their arrival, irreparably devalued the price of the article” (pg.78)
When we look at the world of Auschwitz, the existence of black market was extremely fundamental to the prisoners. We humans think that the black market is a negative thing because it is obviously illegal. However, when we place ourselves in the shoes of the Jews in the concentration camp at that time, we would have been devastated if the black market didn’t exist. When humans are situated at the edge of our lives, determining the matter of life or death, there is nothing to keep; even justice, morality, and even honesty disappears. It is human nature that all human beings on earth do fear our deaths.
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