It is no coincidence that the poet Volker von Toerne was, for many
years, the Director of Aktion Suhnezeichen Friedensdienste (Action
for Atonement - Service for Peace), the German charitable
organisation for education and reparation in countries throughout
the world that have suffered under fascism and other oppressive
regimes. His father had been a member of the SS in Germany in the
Second World War, and as a consequence, his poetry is written from
the perspective of someone who suffered, through no fault of his
own, from terrible guilt after the war. This selection from von
Toerne's collected poems is particularly significant in that it is
a powerful and moving articulation of the psychological burden
still carried by countless people today whose voices are not often
heard, a burden which von Toerne's powerful, poignant and sometimes
angry poetry helps us all the better to understand.
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