English-Speaking Persons Will Find Translations

"English-Speaking Persons Will Find Translations", a poem by Michael S. Glaser, captures the way Americans treat the Holocaust and how ashamed we should be of out own past of genocide. Glaser describes tourists bringing their children up to the ovens at Dachau and posing them for the camera so they can tell everyone about the "amazing" trip they had in Germany, which is wrong on so many levels, its hard to describe. The author also talks about the movie playing in his hotel, one of the cowboy and Indian kind of things, one that shows Americans in a very bad light, but it still seems acceptable. Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Vietnam are also mentioned, proving the point that we have no reason to judge. What happened in Dachau was awful, almost to terrible for words, but what people where doing and the way we see it as a nice day trip is almost as bad, and Glaser makes this point beautifully in this poem.