A poem by a 15-year-old Dutch boy about his uncle who joined the SS will not be part of next week’s Remembrance Day commemorations
DutchNews.nl – Row over teenager’s poem overshadows Remembrance Day
Contrary to what you may believe, this is not part of a piece at The Onion. Someone did think that a poem about a “poor youngster” who joined the German SS out of his own volition was suitable to commemorate the end of WWII. That was until a group representing Auschwitz survivors said they would boycott the event if the poetry reading went ahead. Because you know, the survivors had to actually tell that this was wrong, otherwise the reading would have gone ahead.
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