Karhlsruhe Hbf

“Karlsruhe Hbf” A man wore a bib on the outside of his down jacket at Weiner Feinbacher. Struedel doesn’t drip. Poinsettias from Blumen leaving on the next train, maybe from the same platform where 945 Jews departed. Citizens unwillingly embarked. The beginning of the end of their journeys. Now 500 Euro strollers pass by the obscure corner where Officials placed the not too big “Fidelitas” sign, a generous, shame filled, failed attempt to tell the truth about the indescribable horrors. The façade a beautiful art deco of scalloped concrete. Tracks supported by stylized girders of industrial progress. How many opatrons passing beneath the abundant curtains of Christmas lights, grabbing a McCafe for the ICE, recall the role the Hauptbahnhof played for the victims of the 3rd Reich. Has it been long enough, too long, to constantly commemorate? Veritas, Fidelitas. If the sign were bigger and put somewhere so People would see it, going to or from the planned Karlsruhe, It would be another start. - - - JDZoller - Copyright © December 2009