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has gloss | eng: "The Hangman" is a childrens poem by Maurice Ogden. Its plot concerns a hangman who arrives at a town and executes the citizens one by one. As each citizen is executed, the others are afraid to object out of fear that they will be next. Finally there is nobody remaining in the town except the Hangman and the narrator of the poem. Parallels may be drawn to Martin Niemöllers haunting poem First they came... |
lexicalization | eng: The Hangman |
instance of | c/Poems dealing with The Holocaust |
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