—
ratenco — ratenco — ratenco ...
„Well, Mr. Rockefeller, what do you
think have these red-brownish wagons to
do at the end of the blue
TAZARA-express?“
„But these are …
cattle-wagons!”
 Europe meets — Africa!
— Latin America! — Asia! —
Australia!
No railway-nostalgia anymore anywhere on
one of these continents without
memorizing such red-brownish
cattle-wagons!
„Arbeit macht frei”! —
„Labour Liberates”!
We are neither the „First ”,
nor the „Second” or the
„Third International Movement”,
comrade Trotsky!
We KNOWING VOICES are also not the
„Fourth International
Movement”, Mr. Rockefeller!
Hello, Mr. Kissinger — wherever you
are busy to present another
thirty-thousand-dollar-lecture ...
… we are the ghosts you can’t
get rid of
… we are the maltreated of the
Ludlow-massacre
… we are the maltreated of the St.
Petersburg-massacre
… we are the voices of the deaths in
Chile, in Congo, in Indochina, in Iraq
...
… we are the „International of
the Maltreated”
… with right of hospitality in these
cattle-wagons offered by
Jews and Christians …
Gays and Communists …
Unionists and Cripples …
CONTROL! START MOVIE!
 DER LETZTE
ZUG — THE LAST TRAIN
Germany, Czech Republic 2006
Distributor: Concorde Filmverleih GmbH
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier, Dana
Vávrová
Script: Stephan Glantz
Adapted from a story by Art Bernd
Actors: Gedeon Burkhard, Lale Yavas, Lena
Beyerling,
Juraj Kukura, Sibel Kekilli
Duration: 123 min
Things happen, then they become history.
Historians reconstruct history from
sources. However, history can also be
constructed in stories by poets and by
the media. The movie THE LAST TRAIN tells
such a story. It is the one of the last
transport of Jews from Berlin to
Auschwitz in April 1943.
THE BACKGROUND
During the Nazi-dictatorship from 1933 to
1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn — the
German Railways — was placed under
the Reichsverkehrsministerium — the
Minister of Traffic in the central German
government. Railway-executives and
functionaries helped to plan and to
realize the transport of several million
people into West European transit-camps
and East European Ghettos, into
concentration- and death-camps, to the
murder-places near the Latvian capital
Riga or to Minsk in Belo-Russia.
Between 1941 and 1945, an estimated three
million people were sent by train into
their death.
The operational offices of the Reichsbahn
drafted the transport-schedules. The
deportations took place either on special
trains or in wagons which were attached
to regular trains; it depended on the
dimension of the given human freight.
The Reichsbahn calculated per person and
per rail-kilometre the usual tariff of
four Reichspfennig, the tariff for
children was reduced. If a train would
carry at least four hundred persons a
rebate of fifty percent was given. The
costs for each transport was paid from
confiscated means of the deported. It was
a lucrative business for the German
Railways since Jews from all over Europe
were transported, covering quite some
distances. It was 560 kilometres from
Berlin to Auschwitz, some one thousand
kilometres between Auschwitz and
Frankfurt / Main. And, of course, most
trains were crammed; for a single
transport sometimes one or two thousand
deportees were driven together. Whilst,
at the beginning passenger-coaches were
used it became common later on to use
freight- or even cattle-wagons …
Such cattle-wagons cannot be
uncoupled anymore from history!
We are working here!
We liberate ourselves!
—
ratenco — ratenco — ratenco ...
What has this to do with us, girls?
Some cattle-wagons are supposedly added
to the train … hopefully, they have
not uncoupled our container from Dubai
instead!
CONTROL! AUDIO PLEASE!
16
Wake
up!
Wake up, — because
your dreams are bad!
Stay awake, —
because the horrible is
closing in.
It will come even to you
who lives far away
from those places where
blood has been spilt,
even to you during your
afternoon-nap,
which you do not like to
have disturbed.
Should it not come today,
it will come tomorrow,
Stay assured.
"Oh, pleasant sleep
on that pillow with red
flowers
a Christmas-present from
Anita embroidered by her
over three weeks,
oh, pleasant sleep,
when the roast meat was
fat and the vegetables
were tender.
Whilst napping away the
mind replays the
news-reel of yesterday
evening:
Easter-lambs, awakening
nature, opening of the
casino in Baden-Baden,
Cambridge won over Oxford
by two and a half
lengths,
that is enough to keep
the brain busy.
Oh, these soft pillows,
eider-downs of first
choice!
With them one forgets the
nuisances of the world,
this news for example:
The one who is accused of
abortion said in order to
defend herself:
The woman, mother of
seven children, came to
me with her suckling,
for which she had no
diapers
and which was wrapped in
newsprint.
Well, that is an issue
the court has to deal
with, it is not of my
concern.
One cannot change the
fact that one may have to
lay a bit harder than
another one.
And what may happen, our
grand children will have
to deal with it.."
Ah, you are not asleep
yet? Wake up, my friend!
The electricity is
already running live in
the fence, and the guards
took position.
No, don’t fall
asleep, whilst the
arrangers of the world
are busy!
Remain suspicious towards
their power which they
claim
to acquire on your
behalf.
Stay alert so that your
hearts are not found
empty when they count
with the emptiness of
your hearts!
Do what is not useful,
sing the songs which they
don’t anticipate
from your mouth!
Be uncomfortable, be the
sand, not the oil in the
driving-gear of the
world!
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Hello!
We would like to know why we are not
moving for hours already!
Do we need for it a Kissinger or the CIA?
You were just listening to the
final poem from one of the best known
radio-plays ever broadcast in Germany.
The starting
time for Günter Eich’s play
„Träume“ —
„Dreams“ — on 19th
April 1951 was scheduled for 20:50 hrs, a
bit later than usual, „because the
children should be save in their
beds“. According to a preview of DER
SPIEGEL it should become a
„murderous affair“, and for
some listeners it obviously became one.
The Nordwestdeutsche Rundfunk — the
radio station in Hamburg — received
furious telephone-calls and complaining
letters: „We have just listened to
that radio-drama by this Eich. Can’t
we get this man arrested?“
Five nightmares are told in five scenes;
each scene is playing on one of the five
continents, and each starts with the
sober lingo of a newscast-reader who
introduces a harmless person who will
live through the following nightmare.
The second dream finds a group of people
in a cattle-wagon on a seemingly endless
railway-journey involved in a seemingly
endless debate about the question who may
be responsible for their fate.
„Perhaps, in this world the cosy
dreams are being dreamt by
scoundrels.“
...
Ist die Lok kaputt, oder was?
We are rebuilding! For the time
being, just have a dream!
Click!
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