GERMAN EULOGY OF YOUTH
POEM BY YOUTH LEADER. To the obvious embarrassment of oijo or two newspapers the Nazi Youth Leader. Baldur von Sehirach. has composed a poem on the Hitler Youth leaders who died in the Polish campaign. Written in free verse style which cannot be reproduced in English. the poem is characteristic of this apostle of Nordic religion. Day after day you fell there. They proclaim to me your sacred names, C silent ones! Brothers. Never did 1 hear you more clearly when you lived and laughed, and when I ordered you. chorus of faithful ones, to the roll call. Your voices are dumb, your bodies stiff. Yet the sacred names are like mighty bells sounding to the land. Leaders of youth, fallen ones; you lie fallen like early dew on a spotless shield. Arise, eternal ones, arise! Hem your names and live eternal like God
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1939, Page 7
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148GERMAN EULOGY OF YOUTH Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1939, Page 7
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