Answer:
There is a kinship with the dead German soldier and his English killer
Step-by-step explanation:
In the poem "Vergissmeinnicht," the author Keith Douglas makes reference to English soldiers who return to the battleship where they foough three weeks ago. There lies the decomposing body of a German soldier killed in the combat, together with a photograph of his girllfriend on which she has written "Vergissmeinicht," the German version of Forget Me Not. Thus, Douglas intends to describe the unnecessary brutality and bloodshed of war.