Showing posts with label Hitler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hitler. Show all posts
Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Vignette 14 ( Twenty-Five Words * ) Conference at Villa Minoux Wannsee

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Practical ashtrays and water carafes       were uniformly spaced around the table,           floors waxed to the highest sheen.             ...
Friday, 1 August 2025

A Child’s Definition of Humanity.

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 You’re IT. Pass it on. it, it , pronoun , the neuter of he, him , (and formerly his ), applied to a thing without life, a lower animal, a...
Monday, 18 November 2024

Deposition of a Rebel from the Cross

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Since, in each case of my lantern slides this evening, the image is a species of ideological propaganda let us compare and contrast the exhi...
Sunday, 7 January 2024

An Émigré Childhood. Opus 42. Southern England 1942.

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          There was a time when skies made shadows of           those great wings that cursed our house a midday dark,               where e...
Friday, 25 January 2019

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Lower than dirt Once I lived lower than dirt;  below, in the basement area, under the steps to my master’s front door. I woul...
Sunday, 17 April 2016

Oderint dum metuant*

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             Though endlessly in his City of Stone              From every corner of the Boulevards              His voice is yammering...
Friday, 7 March 2014

Rates of Exchange: ‘Ici. Français assassinés par les Boches.’

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I have mentioned here and there, somewhat tangentially, the dilemma of my German-born father, accused by his sister in a fierce letter from ...