Abbeförderung ('dispatching, removal') – euphemism for mass murder.

The air that kills, miasmic fogs
Disperse the pollutions of the past
Into the ever-present

Nothing lasts, they say.
Fasts, self-denying ordnances,
All the ferocities
Of religion, ideology
Do not matter a jot.
Mortality is our lot.

So, listen to the beautiful airs of music,
Be tolerant of unforeseen strictures of fate,
Be one with the forsaken.

Mental illness is a mystery wrapped inside a puzzle,
As holy fools attest.
Those touched by the Holy Spirit,
Especially sisters of the night,
"Hysterical" women*, condemned as witches.
Troubadours sing sad airs of tragic love madness
Under the moon, lunacy challenged reason's sway.

This is the air that kills,
The air of perverted reason,
That air that sent the Shoah
Six million Jews condemned to cruel, cruel death
By doctor, engineer, administrator, teacher, clerk
Family men all, all, deep-dyed psychopaths.

* - The Greek word for womb is "hyster"

 

By Peter - Orthodox group and poster, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3237622