SS CITY OF BERNARES

SS CITY OF BENARES

Having prior knowledge this ship would carry weapons to aid Britain on its return journey

Capitan Lieutenant Heinrich Bleichrodt should have waited, but, he being so trigger thirsty

After two failed attempts managed it on the third try, resulting in 77 children who then died

Blaming the British, for allowing such children to sail within a war zone, the Germans cried

This British ship was part of a convoy, no mention of it carrying children, and it sailed unlit

Bleichrodt had he known there were children on board, would never had have made that hit

That was all too much for Churchill who now put an end to ships that carried child evacuees

This was not his idea of those damn Germans, doing their best as to bring Britain to its knees

As only 2 weeks before there was the attack of the SS Volendam with 320 children on board

But; with this attack all the children survived, though to their luck it should as not be ignored

As it was found later another torpedo unexploded, that was securely embedded into her bow

And, it was from this that first initially started, this unholy evacuation of evacuees by sea row

Children; who were supposed to be as protected, than be killed by those cold forsaken waves

With far too many of them never even reaching shore and were left within their ocean graves

 

“Capitan Lieutenant Heinrich Bleichrodt; attended the Nuremberg war crime trials for his part

in the sinking of the SS City of Benares, where he was then acquitted” . . .

 

“The British should also take their share of the blame for the deaths of these children for their

part in allowing their ships that carried the child evacuees alongside with any weapons of war

in any form upon them at the same time” . . .

Indiana Shaw . . .  :  /