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DISCOGRAPHY:	The Holy Bible
LYRICS:	Nicky Wire and Richey James
MUSIC:	James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore
QUOTES:	The Intense Humming Of Evil"/"Mausoleum: "Brother/sister songs. Visited Dachau and Hiroshima. What reflections should be for everyone. Otherwise we're all Edward Scissorhands Avon Lady. Winners dictate history. Holocaust one of the few examples where even truth is being questioned. Revisionist historians. Danger of Schindler's List - Portrayal of merely flawed man. Never question our own past - myth of Churchill. "An individual death means little - millions must mean something?" (Richey James; THB Tourbook) Mausoleum/The Intense Humming of Evil: These two can be twinned together, because they were both inspired in the same way. Last year we visited Dachau, Belsen and the peace museum in Hiroshima, and those three places had quite an intense influence on us, and on the whole album. Dachau is such an evil, quiet place. There's no grass, and you don't even see a worm, let alone any birds. all you can hear is this humming of nothing. In the museum at Belsen, there's the original sign which hung there. It says, 'Welcome to Belsen Recreation Camp'. It's the same with the peace museum in Hiroshima. When you're young, you're brought up to think that the americans dropped the bomb because they had to end the war, and loads of Americans would have been killed otherwise. But when you go there and see the pictures of the whole city completely flattened, and the black rain, and all the people who died from the secondary effects... If anyone goes to those places and doesn't feel an immense sense of loss, they've got no soul. The lines: 'Churchill no different/wished the workers bled to a machine' are about how Britain always thinks that it has a superior attitude. But as soon as the war was over, the attitude was: 'Let's get back to normal and exploit as many people as we can again. Keep the proles happy, tie them to their machines, and send them out to war again to be killed when we need to'. (Nicky Wire; Melody Maker 27.8.94)

ARBEIT MACHT FREI German for 'Work Brings Freedom' 'Arbeit macht frei' was the sign over the gates of Auschwitz. It was placed there by Major Rudolf Hoss, commandant of the camp. He seems not to have intended it as a mockery, nor even to have intended it literally, as a false promise that those who worked to exhaustion would eventually be released, but rather as a kind of mystical declaration that self-sacrifice in the form of endless labor does in itself bring a kind of spiritual freedom. MANICS REFERENCE: 'ARBEIT MACHT FREI' (The Intense Humming Of Evil lyrics) 'THEN WORK CAME AND MADE US FREE' (A Design For Life lyrics) FOR MORE INFORMATION: Remember Wiesenthal

BLOCK 5 Block No. 5 was the experimental block at the Dachau concentration camp where the torture and death of hundreds of inmates took place. Some inmates, for example, were injected with malaria: "...I sat for two days in the block and afterwards I was again called to the hospital and there I was given malaria in such a manner that there were little cages with infected mos quitoes and I had to put my hand on one of the little cages and a mosquito stung me and afterwards I was still in the hospital for five weeks. However, for the time being no symptoms of the disease showed themselves. Somewhat later, I don't exactly recall, two or three weeks, I had my first malaria attack. Such attacks recurred frequently and several medicines were given to us for against malaria. I was given such medicine as neo-salvasan. I was given two injections of quinine. On one occasion I wa s given atabrine and the worst was that one time when I had an attack, I was given so- called perifer. I was given nine injections of that kind, one every hour and that every second day through the seventh injection. All of a sudden my heart felt like it was going to be torn out. I became insane. I completely lost my language - my ability to speak. This lasted until evening. In the evening a nurse arrived and wanted to give me the eighth injection. I was then unable [sic] to speak and I told the nurse about all of the complications I had had and that I did not want to receive the injection..." (excerpt from The Doctors Trial, the medical case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings). For the whole interview visit Doctors Trials MANICS REFERENCE: 'IN BLOCK 5 WE WORSHIP MALARIA' (The Intense Humming Of Evil lyrics) FOR MORE INFORMATION: Remember Wiesenthal

CHURCHILL, WINSTON (1874-1965); British statesman, soldier, and author. A graduate of Sandhurst, he fought in India, the Sudan, and South Africa. In 1900 he was elected to Parliament. He was the first lord of the admiralty (1911-15) in WWI until discredited by the failure of the Dardanelles campaign, which he had championed. He later served in several cabinet positions in the Liberal government of Lloyd George. A Conservative after 1924, he was chancellor of the exchequer from 1924 to 1929; his revaluation of the pound was a factor leading to the general strike of 1926. Out of office from 1929 to 1939, Churchill issued unheeded warnings of the threat of Nazi Germany. In 1940, seven months after the outbreak of WWII, he replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister. His stirring oratory, his energy, and his refusal to make peace with Hitler were crucial to maintaining British resistance from 1940 to 1942. Before the U.S. entry into the war, he met Pres. F.D. Rossevelt at sea. He twice addressed the U.S. Congress, twice went to Moscow, and attended a series of international conferences (e.g., Yalta Conference). After the postwar Labour victory in 1945, he became leader of the opposition. In 1951 he was again elected prime minister; he was knighted in 1953 and retired in 1955. Churchill was the author of many histories, biographies, and memoirs, and in 1953 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for his writing and his oratory. Churchill called his bouts of depression 'Black Dog' MANICS REFERENCE: 'WINSTON CHURCHILL CAN YOU HEAR MY VOICE' (Black Dog On My Shoulder lyrics) 'CHURCHILL NO DIFFERENT' (The Intense Humming Of Evil lyrics) FOR MORE INFORMATION: Winston Churchill Website

HARTHEIM CASTLE Place near Linz in Austria, used as euthanasia facility during the Nazi regime in 1941 and 1942. On October 20, 1939 Hitler signed the document "T4" (named after the place of the authority at Berlin, Tiergartenstraße 4), which entitled doctors to kill disabled people and people with mental illnesses who were "not useful" for the society anymore. Hartheim Castle was closed due to church protests, but the killing went on in smaller institutions. MANICS REFERENCE: 'HARTHEIM CASTLE BREATHES US IN' (The Intense Humming Of Evil lyrics)

LAGERSTRASSE German, meaning 'camp street' It was the main street of the death camps. MANICS REFERENCE: 'LAGERSTRASSE, POPLAR TREES' (The Intense Humming Of Evil lyrics) FOR MORE INFORMATION: Wiesenthal

RASCHER, SIGMUND DR. Rascher was a Luftwaffe captain as well as a doctor during the National Socialism. He was in charge of many of the "military medical experiments" at Dachau including the hypothermia experiments (where 300 people were killed) and the high altitude experiments. He examined the brains of Jews after their skulls were split open (while fully conscious) to see the effects of high altitude on humans "As you know, the same installation as in Linz is to be built in Dachau. As the 'invalid transports' terminate in the special chambers anyway I wondered if it would be possible to test the effects of our different combat gases in these chambers using the persons who are destined for these chambers anyway. The only reports which are available so far are of experiments on animals or of accidents which occured in the manufacture of the gases. Because of this paragraph I am marking this letter 'Secret'." (Sigmund Rascher to Himmler, August 1942) MANICS REFERENCE: 'RASCHER SURVEYS US BUTCHER BACTERIA' (The Intense Humming Of Evil lyrics) FOR MORE INFORMATION: Intermediate report on intense chilling experiments in the Dachau Camp by Dr. Sigmund Rascher