In memory of Georg Elser, the Unlucky Hero who stood alone against Hitler

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Here's to You, Georg, Unlucky Hero,

Working Class Self-taught Genius:

You filled with Music your Hard Life

And brought Joy to another Man's Wife

You were a Christian, not a Bigot,

And a Communist, not an Extremist;

You never wanted to kill, but You had to

You tried and You failed and were jailed

And when the War was near to the end

They killed and buried You with Shame

For They could not accept that a Man Alone

Could think by Himself and fight for All

(4 January 1903 - 9 April 1945)

Who tried to stop the war with a bomb eighty-seven years ago.

Vera da Pozzo

Paris, 8th November 2026

Poem above by me; photographs below found on the Web.

I strongly recommend to watch the 2015 film 13 Minutes (German original title: Elser - Er hätte die Welt verändert), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel and starring Christian Friedel. Here is the trailer.

Above: Georg Elser's Memorial in Berlin.

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