"What is the Truth?" (Chelmno - 1941-1945)

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“What is the Truth?”

(Chelmno 1941-1945)

cji

3/21/14

(Prelude:

What drives men insanely

lusting to kill or destroy

perfecting and bragging

efficiency was the goal

called Germanizaton

better to be death zone

without mercy or concern

mattering not of the who

multiple nationalities there

Soviets, Poles, Hungarians

Bohemian, Moravians, Austrians

some from Germany and more

those from Luxemburg as well

yet mostly it was the Jews

yet mostly it was the Jews!

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“What is the Truth – 1?”

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3/21/14

Revisionist history lying

creating an illusion of hate

changing what is desired

forcing one to learn in lies

negating the pain and sorrow

unless someone can gain

peddling their brand of lies

to further corrections

exacting retribution false

while somewhere is truth

the Holocaust did happen

innocent lives were ruined

a culture almost destroyed

millions lost their lives

in the insanity called hate

wherein power is absolute

it happened at Chelmno

it can happen again here

some places already has

as the politically unfeeling

ignoring what is the truth

hoping others do so too

so it can happen again!

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“Perfection”

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3/21/14

Without rails provided

carried by lorries away

dumped all belongings

then into the showers

naked without any pride

put in the back of vans

thinking moving again

yet instead gassed

then to mass graves

till a stench air filled

unburied and torched

reburied – refined

killing perfection

92,000 in six months

only to increase

till closed in 1943

reopened in 1944

then closed 1945

its work of death

perfection found

in memory bound!

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“340,000 or More”

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3/21/14

True numbers unreported

cover-ups and denials made

as much history has been

while families annihilated

towns and villages reduced

so many lost to their race

but mostly all lost to hate

violence of the worst kind

controlled by government

power to destroy many

in denials of conquest!

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“Fresh Air Lost”

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3/21/14

Clear country air to breathe

somehow losing its savor

slowly being replaced vile

soon only the air of death

filling every person found

none could avoid or hide

none could longer deny

death was taking place

bodies decomposing each

escaping their burial pit

in the only way they could

till fresh air lost to all

having lost its savor

vile country air to breathe!

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“Not Just Any Camp”

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3/21/14

Camps found throughout

Poland, Germany and more

where a final solution to be

called the Holocaust today

history being written then

keeping notes and dates

counting corpses each one

innocent children – parents

grandparents, aunts/uncles

brothers and sisters known

not just any Camp was this

but one found just to murder

seeking a final solution

followed in other Camps!

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“Seven Escaped”

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3/21/14

Hundreds of thousand

sent to the Chelmno Camp

well-guarded and isolated

striped and naked their

rape – pillage – murder

only three escaped

one day to testify

proclaiming the guilt

telling the story told

of those in Chelmno

hundreds of thousands!

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“Destroying Evidence”

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3/21/14

Bringing in more prisoners

political and POW’s too

digging up the graves all

pulverizing the remains

filling sacks upon sacks

taken to the river Warta*

over and over trips made

at first mallets on concrete

then using a Knochenmuhle

speeding up the hiding phase

soon closing the camp

executing the forced labor

still the evidence remained

the eternal small of death

and witnesses escaped

attempting to beguile all

sadly a memory unable

to be destroyed then

still alive even today

while attempted twice

further ingraining horror!

*Warta – or Ner River)

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“Sonderkmmando”

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3/21/14

Forcing the young to destroy

prisoners soon too to die

forced to aid in the Camps

so many different names

the same at Chelmno Camp

made to destroy bodies

while none able to revolt

(as others did in places*)

still punished as the same

one in three killed as lesson

till in the end most all died

forced in this work of death!

(*Auschwitz/Treblinka)

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“What is the Truth- 2?”

cji

3/21/14

What is being rewritten today

beguiling other generations

as much of history despised

some or much for greedy gain

others for power blocks of hate

changing and simply wiling

for the many to be forgetful

thus political correctness

changing what happened

not asking what is the truth

only deciding this should be

while the Holocaust real

denial unacceptable to be

so many atrocities then

easily being repeated now

as so many care not today

what is the truth of history!

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(Epilogue:

Unable to continue on

too many nightmares

too many thoughts found

my memories bound

Camp to Camp to Camp

years taken to record

some so long ago today

each time the journey

painful – devastating

seeing the children

men and women

abused and destroyed

as at Chelmno found

in my memory bound

nightmares conflicting

endlessly to continue!)

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