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Second Tour … After the slaughter of the Great War, same players shoot again … According to my friend Devic<\/a>, whose loss I find more unbearable every day, the war of 39-40 should not be called World War II. It was just the continuation of the first, which ended in a defeat that the neo Prussians coud not swallow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And while France bursts into the euphoria of the Roaring Twenties, Germany rearms, mobilizes, prepares for the fight which this time will end in a German victory and the occupation of France and a good part of Continental Europe.<\/p>\n

My father<\/a> was captured in 1940. He had just completed three years of military service weighed down by the wait for a promised mobilization. To these three years will be added four years of captivity in a factory in the Ruhr. He’s been having real harsh time down there, I understood it at the very end of his life, when he finally told the truth about the constant suffering, torture, deprivation and humiliation he suffered as Kriegs Gefangener<\/em>, KG<\/em> in the back on his prison fatigues. He died at the age of 94.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He didn’t die at war, but he never came back indeed. His soul and spirit have been kept in Germany. He often told us about his captivity. In a comedic fashion ever. He didn’t write anything about the horror he went through, I guess he never could. So I give the floor to one of my favorite poets, who will speak for Dad and his suffering companions. Those who died, those who’ve been wounded, those who’ve been broken and spent the rest of their life at war with their sad memories.<\/p>\n

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You will not get over you who ran girls<\/em>
\nYoung man whose heart I saw bare beating<\/em>
\nWhen I ripped your shirt and neither did you<\/em>
\nYou will not come back old manila player<\/em><\/p>\n

That a shell cut abeam in half<\/em>
\nFor once he had a game of thunder<\/em>
\nAnd you the tattooed the former legionary<\/em>
\nYou will survive a long time without a face without eyes<\/em><\/p>\n

We’re leaving God knows where it’s got a bad dream<\/em>
\nWe’ll slide along the line of fire<\/em>
\nSomewhere it’s starting to be out of the game<\/em>
\nThe fellows over there are waiting for the relief<\/em><\/p>\n

Roll away, roll train of the last lights<\/em>
\nThe dozing soldiers that your dance shakes<\/em>
\nLet their foreheads bow and their necks bend<\/em>
\nIt smells of tobacco, breaths sweat<\/em><\/p>\n

How to look at you without seeing your destinies<\/em>
\nBridegrooms of the earth and promised to sorrows<\/em>
\nThe night light makes you the color of crying<\/em>
\nYou move vaguely your condemned legs<\/em><\/p>\n

Already the stone thinks where your name fits<\/em>
\nAlready you are just a golden word on our places<\/em>
\nAlready the memory of your loves is fading<\/em>
\nAlready you are only to have perished<\/em><\/p>\n

Louis Aragon<\/p>\n

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