Germany’s annexations proceeded from 1938 to ‘41,
Said Churchill, “So now this bloodthirsty gutter-snipe
Must launch his mechanized armies upon new fields
Of slaughter, pillage and devastation” – stopped by no one,
As Germany attacked Russia, which became their ‘Achilles heel.’
“We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air,
We shall defend our island whatever the cost . . . not flag or fail.”
Words were many, but teamwork and the Allies’ D-Day swiped
German military back, their retreat of ‘scorched earth’ ferocity,
Calling their ‘ultimate solution’ and ‘the War of Annihilation’ fair.
Upon our beautiful, celestial sphere – here, there was more to see:
That in the field of weaponry, Man’s greatest experiment,
Turned all matter to dust and disease, poisoned for all time, spent.
June Edvenson 