Never Again/Remember-Eric Bogle

[@ThePhilosophyDoctor]

I studied Nazi Germany for a year when I was 16. The question posed to the 6 of us (studying for the S Level) by our history teacher was "Could it happen here?" At the beginning of the year we said 'No'. After studying the propaganda, the use of fear, the psychological instability from inflation etc we said 'Yes'. Unless we recognise the early signs and stop it. It's not too late yet. That study informed the rest of my life.

[@chriscarter5720]

I had never heard this song before. Now I doubt I will ever forget it.

[@mads0703]

I have been to hell today. I saw the Devil's naked face. I felt the poison freeze my heart In that evil, evil place. I heard the ghosts cry out in warning, Their voices ringing through the years. I stood beneath the barbed wire fence, And wept, and wept, bitter tears. Never, never again! I stood alone that winter's day, On that barren killing ground. Inside my head the voices grew Till my brain was bursting with the sound. They cried, "Comrade, do not forget us!" And I replied, "I never will!" And as my soul in anguish wept, One by one, the voices stilled. Never, never again! Europe, sixty years ago - remember? Depression, millions on the dole - remember? In those dark despairing times Of unemployment and bread-lines A cancer grew, fat and malign - remember? Its banner was a crooked cross - remember? Its destiny a holocaust - remember? Its creed was racial purity. It fed on fear and bigotry. Its touch was death and slavery - remember? It's happening again. It's happening again. Can't you see it's happening again? It's happening again. It's happening again. Can't you see it's happening again? Treblinka, Auschwitz and Dachau - remember? David's Star, a people's shroud - remember? No refuge and no hiding place For non-members of the Master Race, Whole nations enslaved and debased - remember? Blood and toil and sweat and tears - remember? The nightmare lasted six long years - remember? The world drowned in a bloody tide Of war and death and genocide. Fifty-seven million died - remember? I've lived in freedom all my life, Never thinking much about the cost, Of those who suffered and who died So that freedom's flame would not be lost. I saw the flame in Sachsenhausen. In spite of all, it's burning yet. To all the ghosts who guard the flame, I promise you, I won't forget. Never, never again! Never, never again!

[@wendydevereux4375]

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[@AlatarMorinehtar]

I remember he wrote this song during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, when he saw the concentration camps that people were being put in and all the refugees on the roads trying to escape the horrors of the war there, he said it reminded him very much of what had occurred during World War Two.

[@GSenft60]

nein, er schrieb dieses Lied nachdem er in der Mahn und Gedenkstätte des ehemaligen KZ Sachsenhause war im Februar 1985. Er war Teilnehmer am Festival des Politischen Liedes in Berlin in der DDR.

[@scottishpensioner2447]

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