Lyric discussion by Berg24 

Here is which persons are meant:

One man caught on a barbed wire fence - Dietrich Bonhoeffer - as mentioned by Wardo and Stadt

One man he resist - Mahatma Ghandi

One man washed on an empty beach - Roger Casement - an Irish revolutionary who was betrayed by the Germans shortly before the Irish Eastern Rising of 1916. He was left on a beach, too sick to travel and was caught by the English who executed him after a controversial trial.

One man betrayed with a kiss - Jesus betryed by Judas

@Berg24 Bonhoeffer was executed by hanging: with a rope, not on barbed wire. That is surely a reference to trench warfare in World War 1. Gandhi certainly resisted, but so did many others: Abraham Lincoln, why not? Edith Cavell? OK, she was a woman, but so what? MLK, and JFK; and Albert Luthuli, who also came to overthrow out of love.. One man washed on an empty beach: Normandy beaches weren't exactly empty, but at other times and places in WW2 it would fit. Not Casement, though: he was put ashore on a beach, arrested a good distance from it, and tried...

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