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Subject: NAZIS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADOLF EICHMANN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want no tricks in speaking of this man
Last Line: Lord, forgive me, I can't keep down my hate
Subject(s): Eichmann, Adolf (1906-1962); Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism


AFFIDAVIT AT NUREMBERG TRIALS, by HERMANN GRAEBE    Poem Source                    
First Line: During the 15 minutes
Last Line: Who, as she passed close to me, %pointed to herself and said, %'23'
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis


AROUND PASTOR BONHOEFFER: NEXT TO LAST THINGS, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slime, in the grains of the state
Subject(s): Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945); Nazis


COLONEL LINDBERG, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tear the wings from his shoulders
Last Line: Now let us forget.
Subject(s): Dishonor; Nazis; Tyranny & Tyrants; National Socialism


DADDY, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You do not do, you do not do
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism


DADDY, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You do not do, you do not do
Last Line: They always knew it was you. %daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers And Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis


DRAWING SWASTIKAS ON THE FOGGED WINDOWS OF ST. JOSEPH'S GRADE SCHOOL, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: After school we cleaned bruised boards
Last Line: The lights blacked out, %the windows steamed
Subject(s): Children; Nazis; Nuns; Schools; Youth


GETTING LOST IN NAZI GERMANY, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You do not move about, but try
Last Line: Calling you home, little jewboy in alarm.
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism


LUGUBRIOUS RISINGS, by TOM MCFADDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the airplane banks and curves
Last Line: Over a trio of lububrious risings: %the deathcamp of three mile island
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Nazis; Nuclear Accidents


MEDALS, by BRUCE BOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the mute parade of purple hearts
Last Line: Unlatch the narrow door
Subject(s): Memory; Nazis; Numismatics; Prisons And Prisoners


NAZI, by EDWIN BARLOW EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The nazi loose the lusts of fang and claw
Last Line: "father, forgive, they know not what they do!"
Subject(s): Nazis; National Socialism


NAZI MOTHER, by EVELYN NORCROSS SHERRILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw a nazi mother hauling hay
Last Line: If blood-red poppies tell her why they bloom.
Subject(s): Mothers; Nazis; National Socialism


NAZI SONG, by EUGENE GRINDEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mad flight of a butterfly
Last Line: So sing and sing well %the good master assassins
Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul
Subject(s): Nazis


ON THE BURNING OF BOOKS, by BERTOLT BRECHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the new masters announced that books full of harmful knowledge
Last Line: Recored the truth in my books? And now %you class me with liars
Subject(s): Books; Germany; Nazis


POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 7. SONG, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bird drops down from a tree in the sun in marseille
Last Line: No longer a bitter poem; no longer a poem that could continue!
Subject(s): Birds; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marseilles, France; Nazis; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations; National Socialism


THE MAN WITH THE BROKEN FINGERS', by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And death is a quiet step into a sweet clean midnight
Subject(s): Torture; World War Ii; Norway; Nazis


THRIFT, by DEBORAH BURNHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Perhaps the nazis were the thriftiest of all
Subject(s): Nazis; Saving And Thrift


TV: 2, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Funny / nazis!
Last Line: More funny nazis!
Subject(s): Nazis; Television; National Socialism; Tv