Echoes of old incarcerations

Posted 9/11/19

“From their block they could watch...heart-rending scenes when mothers were torn away from their children.” Laredo Detention Center, Laredo, TX? Central Texas Detention Center, San …

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Echoes of old incarcerations

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“From their block they could watch...heart-rending scenes when mothers were torn away from their children.” Laredo Detention Center, Laredo, TX? Central Texas Detention Center, San Antonio, TX?  Neither. The Birkenau-Auschwitz complex, Poland, 1943-4. (A Train in Winter, by Caroline Moorehead, p. 241. 2011.) These are French women Resistance prisoners watching the arrival of Hungarian Jews.

It’s impossible for most Americans to imagine the depths of Nazi barbarism. It’s impossible for some Americans to imagine a receptive audience in the United States for Trump’s atrocities.

Fayette F. Krause
Port Townsend