Come Goring, Come Goebbel, Come Heinrich by Lisa Izzie

In a history class, while attending Ohio State University, I was asked to write my thoughts/feelings after reading Athens to Auschwitz by Errikos Sevillias and Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves. No matter how many accounts I read of those who suffered during the Holocaust, each account is just as shocking.

Graves spoke of corpses on fields round the trenches,
But he knew when the guns stopped the war would be over.
The British, the French, had conquered the Germans.

Germany divided, no more a threat,
So the fools overlooked again and again,
The cruelty of Hitler, a most viscous man.

He inspired with hate, he called to extinction,
And the Germans all answered and cried:
"Come Goring, Come Goebbel, come Himmler too,
lets kill them all, kill them all, kill the damned Jews'"

So blindly they rallied and rounded up Jews,

But who were the Jews?
They were mothers and brothers,
and fathers and sons,
and they were sweet little infants
that had done nothing wrong.
But wrenched from their homes,
and from each other too!
They were herded into trains to be butchered, and by WHO?
Hitler! Who was screaming,
"Kill them all, Kill them all, Kill the Damned Jews"
So they butchered and starved,
And did experiments too,
But it was on people,
on people,
Who were just like you.

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