Sonderkommando
Pushing corpses into the oven
Living now my only thought
Survival keeping my uniform clean
I only did what I was told
Loading bodies of the dead
once bold soul now weak bought and sold
Sonderkommandos were work units of Nazi death camp prisoners, composed almost entirely of Jews, who were forced, on threat of their own deaths, to aid with the disposal of people in the gas chamber
Auschwitz
Only following orders
Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself
Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful
Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill
Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself
Copyright © Nigel Fox | Year Posted 2013
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