WALKING THE JEWISH WAR MEMORIAL, BERLIN




                       Juden  corpse   Heydrich  shoe  arbeiter  ark   hounds  Gebhardt

                        reek  parade   skeletons   twins  shadows  shorn  hunt   rollcalls

                        krieg  eagles   solitary    Halt!  whispers    skins   sterilize lobot

                        angst  ordure  achtung  Nazi  despair  lethal  HeilHit!  peephole

                        groans  barren   earrings  star   liquidate  Belsen  pyre gangrene

                        zwein  kaporal  showers shot  MeinFuehrer  gas gold  Goebbels

                        flesh  dignity earlocks  barbed  Himmler  excrement   SS freeze

                        guilt  Eichmann pain burying  Bertha  Nuremburg   poison von

                        teeth genoci  pullovers   interrogate  cattletruck  ovens Goering

                        marching halter  chambers  lice  cremation  strip  jewels slaves

                        injection  mustard  Dachau  Hitl   hangman  search shorn   Eva

                        beast  charred  Mengele   ghetto  tattoo  Speer experiment  god


                                                                                                             Michael Small
                                   October 1-22, 2005

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