It will be different in the next, the ultimate, war, but in the last war, battlefields were guarded by the police. We tend to forget that. It was like this:
Monthly Archives: May 2013
The Telegram Pad (Der Telegrammblock)
In front of me lies a pile of sheets of paper between two pieces of cardboard, tied up in a strange way, by the kind of thick iron wire on soldiers’ mess kit, instead of normal book-binding thread.
Do You Think that the Ability to Translate is a Matter of Intelligence? (Halten Sie die Übersetzungskunst für eine Sache der Intelligenz?)
Murder, Murder, Nothing but Murder, for Ten Long Years (Mord, Mord und wiederum Mord, zehn Jahre lang)
Today, the world is ‚celebrating’ a unique anniversary: ten years of the rule of systematic murder.
The First Wave (Der Erster Schub)
Jews in Langemark (Juda in Langemark)
„Two hundred and fifty participants in the 16th German Student Conference took part in an excursion to Flanders. They were addressed by their leader, G.Krüger in the cemetery of Langemark[P1] . He ended with the words, ‘Where we are standing today is a piece of Germany. Germany is wherever Germans gave their life and blood for their Volk.’ The Belgian officials were very cooperative. There were no incidents to report during the excursion“
Homecoming (Rückkehr)
The prisoner, who had had no news from home for a long time, was tortured by fear and his imagination of how things would be at home. The guards tormented him, “Its complete chaos back at your place”. And what would be surprising if it were so, said the prisoner to himself? The men were all away, at the front, in captivity, six feet under,…
