May 10th 1933 Burning Books To Burning People Poem by Terence George Craddock
May 10th 1933 Burning Books To Burning People
for weeks weeks afterward more books are confiscated taken
from libraries book shops private collections all burn burn burn
in 1821 a German poet Heinrich Heine made a chilling prediction
Heinrich said "Where books are burned, in the end people will be
burned." 112 years later this comes to pass Heine's books also burn
choke on smoke burning books becomes burning people enter Nazi
population policy annihilation of Jews Gypsies selected Poles
Russian prisoners of war any undesirables Nazis did not like
state organized mass murder on industrial scale plot genocide
holocaust mountains of shoes will mushroom behind barbed
wire mountains of glasses gold teeth pulled torture experiments
crimes civilized people should not even think of are committed
piles of starved stick limb skeleton corpses Nazis proudly kill
dictatorships confiscate mutilate reality destroy history culture
kill people dictatorships fear books rivers of free flow ideas
humanity must share liberty humanity must realize past history
can become modern reality with indifference with acceptance
ofrules laws made to persecute others laws state police military
protects human decency declares killing innocent men women
children babies innocent children babies is wrong wrong wrong
Written in October 2020 on the 21.10.2020.
Inspired by the poem 'The Sacrifice' by the poet Paul Brookes.
Dedicated to the poet Paul Brookes.
A split image from the poem 'Chanting Chanting Disease Racial Hate Nazi Death Anthem' by the poet Terence George Craddock.
Slightly evocative of your two earlier poems on the same subject. The difficulty is that the brutality of the Nazis is so well known now. How do you write a genuinely new idea?
A Moral Civilized World The Death Of Adolf Hitler’s Personal Physician Dagmar Topf: A Defence Of Family Ovens Not To Be Written Struck Down With A Thunderbolt Love Has Rewards Worth Attaining SS Demons
anyone interested, a few other poems on this topic A Vibrant Life Appeasement For Adolf Hitler Indomitable Will To Survive Legal Genocide Committed On Industrial Scale Stone Cross Prologue Stone Cross Cartoon Caricature Of The Master Race The SS: Who Will You Kill? Classic Dance Steps Peaked Cap: Skull-And-Crossbones Badge
It takes someone with great human sensibility to feel and remember the millions gone, Most European countries handed their Jews to the Nazis, like France did, while Spain helped some, get away. " Mans inhumanity to Man " is incredible. Be warned about what absolute dictatorships can do, to the right or the left. Let these poems be a very poignant, painful, brave and realistic reminder! ! !
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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The brutality of the Nazis is not well known among the present generation of school children, it is not taught at all in many countries. Germany actually teaches it to their credit, in their schools to their students, least this history is forgotten. ***a genuinely new idea? *** Approach the theme from multiple angles, slices of life, a few might be a genuinely new idea. Very few people wanted to read the subject in poetry. I did a few poems in 1987, then 2010 to 2012.