hulit1-6, Exercise 2: Radnoti's last poems

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Why they are treated as witness: Radnoti wrote them while being marched from forced labour in Serbia in 1944, in the last weeks before he was shot. They record what he saw and felt in the moment, with a calm precision that makes the circumstances more powerful, and they were written by a victim who knew the danger he was in.

What the Bor notebook shows: when his body was exhumed in 1946, a notebook of poems was found in his coat pocket. It shows that he went on writing, in strict classical forms, to the end, and it preserves the final poems, including the short "postcards" (razglednicas). It is also physical evidence: the poems exist because of the notebook.

A careful answer stresses what is documented (the notebook, the date and place of the discovery) and treats details of his final days with care, since accounts vary (check).