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"Of the image: In 1944 an allied reconnaissance flight took a series of photographs over Auschwitz,while also photographing the nearby factory complex at Monowitz. It was only years later that it was discovered that these pictures were of the extermination camp, during the final frenzy of the murder of 437,000 Hungarian Jewish men,women,and children." - Douglas Moody



Flying so high on
the roof of the sky,
firing his cameras
that shall never lie.
Opening a window
on what is below on
the rich Polish earth,
enriched with death.
Levers of light exposing
an artifice of straight lines:
chambers of easy disposing,
for the countless human lives.
This Industrial scale murder,
planned in the minds of men;
rushing to finish their work
before their final surrender.
Over four hundred thousand
murdered in this final frenzy.
There could be no rhyme
to encompass this crime

 

© D G Moody 2023