The Nazis exterminated over six million Jews <br /> <br /> TWO LITTLE GIRLS <br /> <br /> The Nazis exterminated over six million Jews <br /> <br /> <br /> The little dark-haired Jewish girl <br /> Too young to go to school <br /> Strips naked quietly beside her mother <br /> With frightened eyes gazing all around <br /> Seeing women and children stripping <br /> Friends and neighbours from the ghetto. <br /> <br /> The German soldier hardened to his task <br /> Opens the shower doors with a curse <br /> Shouts for women and children to enter. <br /> Pushes the weeping girl as she passes <br /> Slams and bolts the door behind her <br /> Oblivious to her mother's desperate pleas. <br /> <br /> Gas hisses from hidden vents <br /> As terrified mothers hold their children <br /> Cradling them dying to their bosoms <br /> Trying to hide death from their eyes <br /> Whispering soft words of love <br /> As Hitler's barbaric Final Solution kills. <br /> <br /> The tall blond SS officer in black uniform <br /> Proud husband and father <br /> Who supervised the burning of the bodies <br /> Goes home with a smile to his daughter <br /> Same age as the dark-haired Jewish girl, <br /> And lovingly rocks her to sleep on his knee.<br /><br />Colin Ian Jeffery<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/two-little-girls/
