Truly, I am living in a time of darkness. — Bertolt Brecht

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Truly, I am living in a time of darkness.

In the original German

Wirklich, ich lebe in finsteren Zeiten!

Bertolt Brecht

1939

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Barbarism World War II

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Poem

Time

1939

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Bertolt Brecht

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Brecht, Bertolt. "An die Nachgeborenen [To Those Born Later]." Die Neue Weltbühne, June 1939.

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