Ss City of Benares

SS CITY OF BENARES Prior knowledge this ship will carry weapons to aid Britain on its return journey Capitan Lieutenant Heinrich Bleichrodt, should have waited, but; trigger thirsty After two failed attempts managed it on the third try, 77 children, then all died Blaming the British, for allowing such children to sail within a war zone he cried This British ship was part of a convoy, no mention of the children, it sailed unlit Bleichrodt had he known there were children on board wouldn’t of made the hit It was enough for Churchill who put an end to ships that carried child evacuees This wasn't his idea of the Germans doing their bit to bring Britain to its knees Only 2 weeks before the attack of the SS Volendam, with 320 children on board With this attack, the children survived, though to their luck shall not be ignored As later it was found, another torpedo, unexploded, as embedded into her bow It is this that first initially started, that evacuation of evacuees, by sea ship row Our children were supposed to be protected not killed by those forsaken waves As many of them never even reached shore were left deep in their ocean graves Indiana Shaw . . . “Capitan Lieutenant Heinrich Bleichrodt attended the Nuremberg war crime trials for his part in the sinking of the SS City of Benares, where he was acquitted” “Also, the British should take their share of the blame for the deaths of these children for their part, in allowing their ships carrying the child evacuees, to be the same British ships noted by the Germans for picking up American weapons in which to aid their war”