Dachau
The Poets & The War XIV
By Humbert Wolfe.
The War Illustrated, Volume 1, No. 18, Page 576, January 5, 1940.
I thought of the concentration camps and the tortured men,
and, as I began to dream of vengeance and dark reprisal,
of the shocking retort that, being denied by life, denies all,
a voice whispered deep in my heart, "Have they triumphed again?"
– The Observer
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