Quoth Browning:
Quote:
And I must not omit to say
That, in Transylvania there's a tribe
Of alien people who ascribe
To the outlandish ways and dress
On which their neighbors lay such stress,
To their fathers and mothers having risen
Out of some subterranean prison
Into which they were trepanned
Long ago in a mighty band
Out of Hamlin town in Brunswick land,
But how or why they don't understand.
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Still heartbreaking for the parents and children who never saw or heard from each other again. And probably no picnic for kids having to fend for themselves in a strange country where they did not speak the language and presumably had no resources. But not homicide.
(See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvanian_Saxons)
Not that that excuses this disproportional response against the town authorities' swindle by targeting parents and children who'd had nothing to do with it, of course. Just wanted to get the facts (as presented by Browning, anyway) straight.
Mark, I shall try not to pipe you anywhere you don't want to go.