These are modern English translations of poems written in German by Bertolt Brecht, who fled Nazi Germany along with Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and many other German intellectuals. Thus Bertolt Brecht was writing from bitter real-life experience.
The Burning of the Books
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
......
Normandy is a different story,
A story for another day,
A tale by moonlight.
We tell it either way:
In high or low tide
When the waves of
Utah
Omaha
Gold
Juno
......
Normandy is a different story,
A story for another day,
A tale by moonlight.
We tell it either way:
In high or low tide
When the waves of
Utah
Omaha
Gold
Juno
......
These are modern English translations of poems written in German by Bertolt Brecht, who fled Nazi Germany along with Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and many other German intellectuals. Thus Bertolt Brecht was writing from bitter real-life experience.
The Burning of the Books
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
......