Prisoner 345 It's a number, just a number

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They took Carl von Ossietsky And broke his body - but not his mind

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Prisoner 562

Half a thousand, half a hundred
Six times two, pick up your pen
Child, my child, count it up now
That's the number that I mean

It's a number, just a number
One of hundreds, a sign of shame
Each man's jacket had a number
Men had numbers, none had names

Hitler's system took their freedom
Took them prisoner, one by one
For the courage of their convictions
They were tortured, gassed and burned

They took communist, they took pacifist
They took social democrat
Jew and Christian all were prisoner
In the concentration camp

To the camp of Esterwegen
Listen child and understand
They took Carl von Ossietsky
And broke his body - but not his mind

In Berlin upon the 4th of May
19 hundred and 38
The Gestapo with its treatment
Signed his death certificate

Five-six-two his prison number
Listen, child, I beg you please
Keep in mind, always remember,
He got the Nobel Prize for Peace

In the struggle against injustice
He fought hard and he fought long
Child - remember Ossietsky
Peace won't come by words alone


Words and music: Oswald Andrae
Song Lyric as sung by Dick Gaughan


Song of Choice


Early every year the seeds are growing
Unseen, unheard they lie beneath the ground
Would you know before their leaves are showing
That with weeds all your garden will abound?

If you close your eyes, stop your ears
Shut your mouth then how can you know ?
For seeds you cannot hear may not be there
Seeds you cannot see may never grow

In January you've still got the choice
You can cut the weeds before they start to bud
If you leave them to grow high they'll silence your voice
And in December you may pay with your blood

So close your eyes, stop your ears,
Shut your mouth and take it slow
Let others take the lead and you bring up the rear
And later you can say you didn't know

Every day another vulture takes flight
There's another danger born every morning
In the darkness of your blindness the beast will learn to bite
How can you fight if you can't recognise a warning?

Today you may earn a living wage
Tomorrow you may be on the dole
Though there's millions going hungry you needn't disengage
For it's them, not you, that's fallen in the hole

It's alright for you if you run with the pack
It's alright if you agree with all they do



If fascism is slowly climbing back



It's not here yet so what's it got to do with you?

The weeds are all around us and they're growing
It'll soon be too late for the knife
If you leave them on the wind that around the world is blowing
You may pay for your silence with your life

So close your eyes, stop your ears,
Shut your mouth and never dare
And if it happens here they'll never come for you
Because they'll know you really didn't care

Peggy Seeger

[PDJane]

1. jThank you..........

[seemslikeadream]

2. Time in Guantanamo 1841 days 8 hours 20 seconds

Sami al Haj is an Al Jazeera journalist, originally from the Sudan, who has been detained by the U.S. at Guantánamo for over five years without trial. He was seized whilst working as a cameraman on assignment reporting on the war in Afghanistan.


http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/EsterEngl...


One of the most famous prisoner of Esterwegen was the German writer Karl Von Ossietzky. As pacifist and Nazi opponent, Karl von Ossietzky was jailed at Esterwegen since several months after he received the Nobel Prize of Peace in 1936. He was extremely weak and had been beaten and tortured several times. A emissary from the Helvetic Red Cross was sent to Esterwegen to inspect the condition of detention of Karl Von Ossietsky: "The SS officer came back with a shivering man, pale as death, a poor creature who seemed unable to feel anything. All his teeth were broken and he had a broken leg. I came to him for a handshake. He did not respond..." With the Nobel Prize, Karl von Ossietsky represented a problem for the Nazis: they could not kill him because he was at this time known worldwide. So he was transferred to a civil hospital where he died in 1938, under the close watching of the Gestapo.

[Robbien]

3. So many good ones were lost

We keep hearing about the Jewish loss

So many others were also lost. Those who disagreed and stood up and fought against the regime where also rounded up.

Nice prose. Thanks.