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Let me tell you a sad story, a true story . . .

     In another time, under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi
Party, millions deemed undesirable were murdered, including children,
imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps or were
shot, or hanged.  The first exterminations of prisoners took place in the 
month of September, 1941.  Those not killed in the gas chambers died 
of starvation, forced labor, disease, self inflicted death, and medical
experiments.  Prisoners were forced to staff the gas chambers.  After they
were dead the bodies were burned in ovens or tossed into pits like garbage.
They had stripped them of their clothes, stripped them of all dignity.
Piles of shoes, clothing, eyeglasses, suitcases even baby things taken.
Today those things are in museums to honor forever the millions of dead.
Hundreds of Germans staffed the camps but only 12% have been convicted
of war crimes.  Auschwitz was liberated on January 27, 1945 but most of
the population had been evacuated and sent on a death march.  All this,
was in another time.   Hopefully the world has learned from this horrific
time in history.  Black and white pictures of unimaginable scenes are 
witness to what happened during the years 1933 to 1945.  But the scenes
I see on the news seem that the world has not learned the lesson well and
leave me weeping and weeping for those who suffer. 


I saw an image
   of a women with children-
               death their   destiny                

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July 14, 2016


Poetry/Narrative/Senryu/Weeping Still
Copyright Protected, ID 16-808-673-07-14
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.


Submitted to the  contest, Any Poem Written in 2016
sponsor, Laura Loo

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