The power of poetry in a long-forgotten WWII encounter | Opinion
Born in England in the first year of World War I, Leigh Fermor never quite fit the Georgian mold. As a child, he bounced around a variety of schools for “difficult” children and was eventually expelled from the King’s School in Canterbury, where he was described as possessing a dangerous mixture of sophistication and recklessness.
On April 26, 1944, Leigh Fermor and his SOE comrades succeeded in kidnapping General Heinrich Kreipe, the German officer in charge of Crete. Dressed as German soldiers, they halted the general’s car at an impromptu checkpoint. As soon as the unescorted vehicle stopped, they ripped open the doors, removed the hapless driver, subdued the general, and sped away.
“Forget tomorrow / leave it to the gods” encourages the poem’s speaker, and Kreipe had good reason to wish to forget tomorrow.
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