
Music that survived the Nazis: Part two
The Documentary Podcast
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Mussulman, Brother, Let Me Kiss Your Snout
A mussulman is very important because it was the first song my father created about the camp. Alexander's son, kristov kolish vitch, when he came into saxonhausen in 19 forty, he saw prisoners who were extremely thin,. and who were actually dying when they were working or when they were standing. Their bodies were destroyed by hunger and other diseases. In german muslem means some one who comes from, maybe arabbic country, but generally it means otherness, other worldliness. And this is what he is writing about a prisoner, mussulmans eyes grow dull, lips grow cold. A child turned into a pile of ashes
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