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Mirco Giuseppe Camia, Italy

from Part III - Liberation: Dachau, April 29, 1945

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Dorothea Heiser
Affiliation:
Holds an MA from the University of Freiburg
Stuart Taberner
Affiliation:
Professor of Contemporary German Literature
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Summary

Libertà a Dachau

Il sole

stà ridando senso alla vita

alla Libertà che è giunta

Oggi 29 aprile

pattuglie

uomini armati

sono entrati dal cancello

ARBEIT MACHT FREI

Gli orridi guardiani

sparuti gruppi sulle torrette

tremanti di fronte all'evento

neanche han saputo ideare

ultimo baluardo per loro

l'arma di costrizione

crudo cemento

eretto sopra il capo degli schiavi

Mitraglieri inoperanti

le dita dapprima irrigidite

ricolmi di orrore

han visto dalle baracche

sortire larve esitanti

Poi quando quelli son scesi

qualche mano

rattrappita sui congegni di fuoco

non ha avuto pietà

Ora giacciono

cose lerci

la boria svanita

grigi stracci

truci farfalle

da un ciclo inverso

ridotte a crisalidi immonde

Altri si addossano al muro

le mani tremanti alla nuca

Io giaccio

gli occhi rivolti ad un cielo

che ora posso vedere

Freedom at Dachau

The sun

restores a meaning to life

to the Freedom which has arrived

Today 29th April

patrols

armed men

entered through the gate

ARBEIT MACHT FREI

The dreaded guards

paltry groups on the turrets

trembling in the face of the event

were not even able to create

a last bastion for them

the weapon of coercion

stark cement

erected over the slaves’ heads

Inoperative machine gunners

their fingers initially frozen

overwhelmed with horror

saw hesitant maggots

coming out from the barracks

Then when they have gone down

a few hands

stiff around the firing machines

had no mercy

Now filthy things lie

pride vanished

grey rags

grim butterflies

by a reverse cycle

have been reduced to dirty chrysalises

Others pin themselves to the wall

their hands trembling at the nape

I lie

my eyes turned to a sky

that I can now see

I gerani alla finestra

incredibili fiori

su un davanzale inaudito

si aprono

su un volto negro piangente

le gote stirate

gli occhi sbarrati

le labbra contratte

incredula maschera

mirante gli orrori che giacciono

ai quali appartengo

Scompare

Ed ecco

la stella di David sul petto

giallo triangolo

triste discriminazione fra cose subumane

appare

Riso di teschio

sguardo folle che guata qualcosa che regge

quasi un peso cullato a fatica

cosa orrenda che abbraccia

possesso inconsulto

Una giaccia zebrata

lorda di sangue

lacerata da un corpo che giace

sullo impiantito all'ingresso del blocco

La Giustizia ha volti scarniti

occhi infossati

casacca a righe […]

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My Shadow in Dachau
Poems by Victims and Survivors of the Concentration Camp
, pp. 194 - 199
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2014

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