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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Antispam question: Please provide registration password: Answer: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON New! Upload Image Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Lenny[/i] [br]Ernst Leitz's optics company (Leica), founded in Wetzlar in 1869, had a tradition of enlightened behavior toward its workers. Pensions, sick leave, health insurance — all were instituted early on at Leitz, which depended for its work force upon generations of skilled employees. Leitz's daughter, Elsie Kuhn-Leitz, fell under suspicion of the Gestapo (German Secret Police) when she attempted to improve the living conditions of 700 to 800 Ukrainian slave laborers, all of them women, who had been assigned to work in the plant during the 1940s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leica_Freedom_Train [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.