Munich proclaims to be Weltstadt mit Herz
the World City with Heart
Can you believe it?
Neither was true when the first cells of the Nazi tumour
sprang to life in its belly
or when it became a Nazi stronghold
before they stormed most of the so-called civilized world
during Woe Woe Two
Woe to the Jews and woe to anyone
who did not make it into the Aryan yearbook
The 1972 Olympics did not make the heart fonder
as if anything could in the city of BMW and Dachau
Bavarian Motor Works used 30,000 slave labourers
POWs and extermination camp inmates
during the Nazi reign
When they were paid a good 20 cents per hour
their wretched wages went into the SS treasury
to further fund their own annihilation
Dachau the first Nazi extermination camp
the prototype and model for the other gassing sites
that grew like cancerous swellings
was fond of Heinrich Himmler
Chief of Police of Munich
and vice versa
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Patrick M. Ohana
A medical writer who reads and writes fiction and some nonfiction, although the latter may appear at times like the former. Most of my pieces (over 2,200) are or will be available on Shakespeare's Shoes.
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